I just got home from kicking it at CW's with some friends. It was a lot of fun, but it just made me realize a few things. The biggest epiphany I had was that it's a beautiful thing to be young. I mean as a kid I was forced to grow up fast. There was just no choice, that's how things had to be. It's sucks, but at the same time I'm thankful for that because it cleared up most of the immature bullshit that we go thru growing up. I wasn't blinded by naivety or teenage ignorance and it gave me a certain focus in life. It's much like a double edged sword because with the naivety gone it made me cold to certain experiences in life. I wasn't able to enjoy and really look at how great it is to be young.
The reason I'm bringing all this up is because we were at CW's for a few reasons. We were there to have a few drinks and kick, my friends uncle flew in from cali, and it was a friend of a friends engagement party. Just sitting back and looking around at everybody and seeing them celebrate they're engagement just got me thinking and really had me appreciating life. I mean in a world full of divorce and lost love it's just a beautiful thing to see two young people truly in love. I mean these people are my age and it made me realize that the journey and sometimes battles of marriage are truly for the young. People say that when you get married young, you're less likely to stay together. But whose to say that older people are fairing any better in the marriage department?
Marriage is like a baby and it grows as you grow and mature. Now i'm not saying that you should go out and get married when you're 16 or 17 or even 18, but I think there's nothing wrong with being married by 22 or 23. By that age you've been thru a lot and you should have a pretty firm grasp on who you are and who you really want to be the rest of your life. There's absolutely nothing wrong with getting married later on in life, but I honestly feel that the later you wait to get married, the colder to love and life we all get. I mean that hope we have when we're young is gone, that passion for each other begins to fade and it's hard to get those things back. Just seeing my friends soon to be married friends just made me really appreciate everything so much more. For the longest time I would say to myself "I can't wait to be older", but that was before I really looked at where I was at in my life and for a 22 year-old it's not half bad.
It feels like I've been just going thru life not really appreciating and experiencing what its like to be 22,pretty successful, and to have in a great relationship. It's strange because I'm what you would call a "product of divorce" and so are a few of my other friends. Either their parents are divorced or just not in the greatest of relationships. Now there's nothing strange about that being as the divorce rate in America is pretty much 50%, but what's strange is that most people with divorced or unhappy parents grow up to be extremely cynical and unconsciously continue the vicious circle that started with their parents;but with my friends it's different. We're all pretty optimistic people, sure there are times when we have a few doubts, but we get past that fairly quickly and we don't continue the cycle our parents went thru.
I guess what I'm really trying to say is enjoy being young. We need learn as much as we can, party as hard as we can, and love like we're fearless. Even if we end up getting our hearts broken in then end, but that pain and that love make life worth living. Being heartbroken never feels good, but that pain lets you know that you're alive and if makes the love you feel later on in life just that much better. Life's too short not to put 100% of yourself in to everything you do. If there's something you want to accomplish then work as hard as you possibly can to reach it, and if there's someone you love then love them like you'll never love anyone else for the rest of your life. Because chance's are you'll never experience a love like this again.
Here's to being young...You only get one ride in this life...Don't waste it because you're too afraid to get on...
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