Breezefinger

Here is your chance to seize something beautiful and incredible- to live in great ecstasy, and great sorrow, but never mediocrity, to achieve infamy, self fulfillment, to create a story not to be forgotten. It won't be safe. Life is ever changing and shifting, people are not static, nor are emotions. Sometimes it will be lonely- can you take this loneliness and learn from it, use it to better yourself? Loneliness is only ever temporary. The wanderlust will never subside, only sleep, but the thrill of the rivers and the road will ease the ache in the heart and the desires of the feet.

What it really comes down to is this. What are you going to with you had done with your life when you die? Will you be happy with your matching dishes and kitchen utensils, your choices of paint color, your wardrobe, your Tetris high score and constructs of your relationships with other people, even if you don't know what they dream about at night, or what their silences mean. Will you be happy to let your possessions and career define who you are? Or will you be happy with the silence of a blizzard, a Thai temple, the architecture of Prague, the bliss of a good draught, a gallop on the beach, and the knowledge that no matter who you may become, as you are ever changing, there is somebody there who loves YOU, who you ARE, not who they WANT you to be- just you, as long as you are true to yourself. The challenge of knowing somebody and getting to know somebody, and never making the assumption that you are done learning.

Choices are tough to make. You aren't a bad person- you're just a person, and humans are flawed. Deciding your own values and morals, and staying true to them, is far more admirable than adhering to standards you don't understand, or believe in. Question everything, challenge everything, and live up to the challenges laid out by life. Even if they hurt.

I love you. Do you ever love as guilelessly as you did at sixteen? Can anybody ever know you as well as the ones that have watched you grow, and learn, **** up and make mistakes?

We both love cornfields and the full moon and water, the sodium glare of city lights and the peculiar silences of three in the morning. We love learning and exploring and searching, and changing, and being prone to fits of extreme emotion.

These choices are going to be hard.