Live, Laugh, Love

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being clique and unoriginal, but perhaps what irritates me the most is its, and others, lack of perception when they scribble this phase down. They tells us that life is the pursuit of laughing and loving; the best life is filled with the most ingenue laughs and too much love.

And maybe, I'm being too cynical. But there is so much more to living and life than the laughs and love I've received. It is the heartache and the tears which drive me to laugh and love, because without those things I can never know the joy. On my trip to death, I do not just want to live then laugh and love. I need to be angry, jealous, and slothful.

It is that we cannot know what it means to live without these things. Because living is about the courage it takes to find out who you are, and what you want. Life is about convictions and the search for something larger than yourself whether it be your ideals, family, or passion. Because living and life is raw, dirty, and unattractive, underneath the laughter and love there is fear, pain, and nightmares. The gritty reality is that most people will not laugh enough, and love too little.

But a loveless life is better than one with too much love, and not enough pain. That person will not understand what it means to live.