Love

At some point in life, everyone has heard the phrase, "It is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." And yet we have all had the relationship where there are no happy moments, no fond memories. There are only misery, anger, and regret. How could this be for the best? How could this be better? I think this could be most likened to giving a man starving in the desert a rich spoon of honey. Not enough to give him any sustenance, only enough to whet his palette and leave him wishing for more. Some would see this as torture, and yet it isn't. This is because the man now has drive. He has the motivation to keep going, when he may have otherwise given up. I believe love is the same way. Each failure brings us closer to success, and love can fail over a million times, because it only needs to succeed once to engorge our lives with happiness.

To Conform

The dictionary defines conforming as acting in accordance with expectations. But when one thinks of the people who claim to conform the least, it is the teenagers. The teenagers who wear the baggy clothes, the kids who just don't care about school, about their parents, about the norm. And yet that statement in itself presents a hypocrisy. One can predict, or rather expect, exactly what it is that those who refuse to conform will do. Essentially, it is those who refuse to conform that conform the most! Wouldn't it be stunning to find a 16 year old wearing a suit and tie to school, a teenager that respected their elders and obeyed every law? Those are the true non conformists. The next time you see all the identical goths, who prides themselves on being different, know they deserve no respect. They deserve nothing but a laugh.