Are you scared of life? Are you scared of death? Are you scared of growing old and grey? Are you honestly telling me you're scared of experiencing? It takes one decision, one moment of action, two people in love, to create in life. This life maybe bad, it may be good. The child may turn out disabled, perhaps misunderstood. Each one though, each one of us, are different, original, yet we are still ordinary people. This we learn as we go on in life.
There are different stages in life. At each stage we all face some kind of problem, no matter how lucky we may be.
As a baby, our hardest quest is learning, learning how to walk, talk and potty train. Other battles we face are trying to get our mothers attention so she can change our nappy, and trying not to fall asleep in our food.
As a toddler, our most difficult choices we had to make were what pencil crayon we picked, or how to reach the counter top to sneak a cookie.
As a child, trying to persuade your mum and dad to let you stay up later than usual, deciding what our next adventure will be and how to climb back down from the tree we scaled.
As a teenager, we face many, choosing whether to stick with out 'friends.' We have to decide what career path we are going to take, whether we are going to listen to the non-believers, or listen to our hearts and follow our dreams. For me, I've thought about it, I think about it, and I've decided if it's going to make me happy, I'm going to follow my dream, for as who says I can't? Who says it's not possible? It's a one in a million chance, but I want to be that one. Then for a big variety of teenagers, they have to face the decision of whether to stay off school or go in and face the heartless ones.
Then comes along the adult years and you realise you are, in fact, getting old. Many would say the adult years are the most challenging. Divorces, fighting for custody of our own kids, and keeping a steady wage; most adults attempt to settle down. They fall in love, they marry, have kids, fall out of love, they divorce; they share and fall in love all over again. Still, through it all, they stay the role models they are to us teens, keeping that smile on their face, telling us to stay strong. They begin to learn the meaning of life, of their life. They've learnt to forgive even if they don't forget; they become wiser, becoming more responsible and start to get grey...
The elder stage, the age of our grandchildren being born, our pensions coming through, developing the agony which old age brings, but still we stay young at break, though our appearance changes on the outside. We begin to try and finish off our quests and complete our goals and dreams. So by the time we come to take our last breath, we can look back, smile and say, "I did good, I did the best I ever could."
Throughout all the bad, we explore, we learn, we find ourselves and with that brings happiness. We are born, we die, we are born once again, this is the circle of life, and no, it isn't as simple nor as easy as we first thought.
The end.
-By Georgia Bird. :)