Youth

Written 2/20/08

You know, being young is hard. Youth is full of flaws. Youth is pink rice clogging the drain. Youth is living month by month, day to day and never quite keeping your head above water. It's not being able to pick your battles. It's facing the fact you're not invicible. That you won't always be around. Youth is about loss in the general and specific sense of the word. When you were a child no one ever dies. Then suddenly you're thrust into a world full of pain and loss. You lose your innocence, your vitality, your resolve. You lose your grandparents, your parents, your friends. One day you wake up and realize you have lost yourself. You are a sinking, bloated and abandoned life. Youth is finally realizing with the eventual acceptance you will get older.