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Life isn't about
keeping score. It's not about how many friends you
have. Or how many people call you. Or how accepted or unaccepted
you are. Not about if you have plans this weekend. Or if you're
alone. It isn't about who you're dating, who you use to date, how
many people you've dated, or if you haven't been with anyone at
all. It isn't about who you have kissed. It's not about sex. It
isn't about who your family is or how much money they have. Or
what kind of car you drive. Or where you're sent to school.
It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are. Or what clothes
you wear, what shoes you have on, or what kind of music you
listen to. It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black,
brown, or green. Or if your skin is too light or too dark.
It's not about what grades you get, how smart you are, how smart
everyone else thinks you are, or how smart standardized tests
say you are. Or if this teacher likes you, or if this guy/girl
likes you. Or what clubs you're in, or how good you are at
"your" sport. It's not about representing your whole being on a
piece of paper and seeing who will "accept the written you".
But life is about who you love
and who you hurt. It's about who you make happy or
unhappy purposefully. It's about keeping or betraying trust.
It's about friendship, used as sanctity, or as a weapon. It's
about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening.
About starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip. It's
about what judgments you pass and why. And who your judgments
are spread to.
It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention.
It's about jealousy, fear, pain, ignorance, and revenge. It's
about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow and
spreading it.
But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison
other people's hearts in such a way that could never occurred
alone. Only you choose the way these hearts are affected and
those choices are what life is all about.
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