[Right]Wrong Reasons

Why do you do things...? Who do you do them for...?

Who are you achieving for? To fufill your dreams or your parents'? Do you help others to boost your self esteem, or to grant others their small dreams... Do you participate in activities to take your mind off things... or to put your mind in a place that you enjoy? What are you doing and who is it for... What are your intentions?

Why do you care? Because its socially unacceptable to say that you don't, or is there actually meaning in your feelings of dislike... or approval? Don't pretend to believe, dont bend your values; you may lie to others... please others but you lie to yourself. When you can't trust yourself, who can you trust?

Why push yourself to achieve other peoples dreams when you're not happy with your life? You're just convincing yourself you want something... when really what you need is something else. If you're selfless to the extent when your living for someone else... where do you find value in yourself...? Do they value you...?

What are you working for... for the satisfaction, for the joy... for the money... It's your life, and what you accomplish is what you live with. Don't let this tell you how to live your life. Don't let materials drive your life... Don't let society control how you live.

Look in the mirror and ask yourself if you like what you see. If you can approve of what your doing... who you've become and who you will be, you're the best you can be.

Don't let the moment slip by for you to perform to achieve your goals... please yourself... not the audience... help for the sake of helping... and not for the recognition. The world is your stage... though the audience may be watching... in the end... its the directors vision that is fufilled... you decide the outcome... the audience is just there to see the results...

Be selfish when you need, and selfless when it counts... live life from the heart... because when you live for someone elses, you have no control for when your heart breaks. The threads to your heart are then tied to places beyond control... and when the threads are cut... the origins are where you trace back your pain to. When you're happy with who you are and what you're doing, when you're dissapointed... theres no one to blame but yourself... and often, its easier to forgive ourselves so keep track of your heart strings and play your own songs... When you anchor your heart to others... you never know when they'll pull away.

Live for the right reasons... and make the best of whats left of your life, when you live for the "wrong" reasons... your live becomes someone elses. Life is your vehicle, you are the driver... how you push it, modify it, what you put into it... its up to you... when your friends are put in control, and you crash... who do you blame? Sometimes its good to have a mechanic take a look, fix you up... cause you can't do it all alone... but just remember... you get yourself from Point A to Point B.

Not Knowing.

Indirection, Redirection, Misdirection... how I've been misguided... rerouted... and blind to the facts of life. How you live your daily life in miniscule lies, you don't even realize. How our perceptions are skewed by the immoral value system and prioritization. How everyday we wake up and take the smallest things for granted. Day after day, minute after minute... and with each second, and each breath, we don't realize what is truly precious. The moments we have to embrance what we've been given... wasted.

Does it make it worse when you realize and regret it? Or is it worse to not know... The worst feeling of all... is being confused... lost and completely unsure where the truth is. At that point. Take a second, breathe, grasp that second and hold onto the ground you're standing on. The longer it takes for you to clutch the moment and bring yourself to reality, the longer it will take for you to stop wasting your time and realize what you need to do. Learn to understand what's happening, interpret it... and recognize your surroundings... its reactions.

In the moment, its usually appealing to do what we want at that time... not look too far... and take the present for granted... but for all the times that tell you to "Hurry up", for every ten times sometimes tells you "Let's go" listen to me just once... and relax... and lets not take the future for granted... slow things down... or when the future becomes the present, you may not be happy with how you've made it. Think of whats best for you. When you find the balance for the speed of life you should be living for your best interests... life will become ideal, past, present, future.

Unfortunately, finding this velocity isn't something that is easy, automatic or possible. It's not a physics equation, not a mathematical variable, and not something either innate, or learned. It's inevitable to go to fast... to take time for granted and its impossible to live a "perfect" life... but simply remember time is a limited thing, don't waste it, but also, realize that life isnt something to whip by, because some day, you won't be able to go back and change what you've ripped past. Life is a one way street, there aren't any U-Turns except in memories, someday, memories will be all we have.

In this day and age, we're always late for something... when life is measured by the speed of your computer, by deadlines, dates, and agendas to be fufilled, its tough to sit and reflect, but really, slow things down. Think things through... some decisions are worth making, and should be made properly. Don't try to push too fast in the world thats moving faster than you can catch up to. A daily error is wanting things to simply be over with... someday that future we've all awaited will meet us... life isn't something we can rewind, why rush to get older? Whether our future that meets us will be what we want... is really up to us, and is dependant on the past and the present... make your future what you want it to be... and just "slow things down".