Two views of the world exist.
View number one.
The world is full of possibilities and, to the untrained
eye, it houses secrets even we cannot unfold. In reality, people achieve
greatness every day. When alarms awaken souls every morning, those souls choose
to wake up. Rather than remain in bed for the day, they choose to use each day
and drain it of its possibilities because they want to rise above their colleagues
and peers so they achieve success. Each day grants people new dreams,
adventures and hopes for their futures. Smiles cover their faces and their
skies are crystal-clear even on dreary, snow-covered days because they adore
life and its opportunities. Aside from what life gives them, their families and
friends give them the laughter they need on days filled with stress, and love
when life does not hand them the lemons they need.
View number two.
Sometimes, life gets too hard. Waking up becomes the largest
struggle of the day – until passing through each day comes along. People
blend together and overcasts flood their surroundings. Rather than rejoicing
for the first day back to classes, they dread pacing themselves through the
bland hallways so they don’t have to quietly sit in the back of the first class
long enough for the steady hum of the lights to drive them completely insane.
Sleep becomes their sanctuary and hope is long-gone. Futures erase and dreams
are replaced. Heads fill with ideas of death and ceasing the inflicting pain of
living another day. All the while, their peers whisper about the oddity of
their quiet demeanors.
A world filled with happiness and love is the same world
covered in blackness and neglect. Take these two halves of the world and make
it one.
