~I think it's shiny, they've all got stories.~

Tonight I went to a thing called the "April Rabbit" where students read things they had written (poems, stories) and/or sang songs they had written. There's a lot of talented people!

There were lots of interesting things, but one of them was a song that was like "one of those letters to a friend that you never actually send and just write for a cathartic experience [...] and usually end up being about yourself".

So I decided to write a letter. But being in the happy mood I've been in recently (this entire year), I decided I'd write one as if by writing it I were helping out the person, not myself. The person...may be someone I've read about in a book, or someone in real life. It may be a character or person from a long time ago, or recently. This person may be older than me, younger than me, or about the same age. Let's let her be female and call her Calla.

(I think it turned out to be partly a reminder to myself.)

♦ Dear Calla,

You have potential in your life. Life is good, with life you can see the world and experience things. Without life, well you wouldn't have the opportunity.

This is going to sound odd and abstract (I'm not usually odd and abstract but will try to explain the best I can).

Firstly, imagine that everyone gets reincarnated, and between lives people just sort of hang out somewhere up there planning their next life. For simplicity sake, imagine that all people are reincarnated as people again.

So, imagine this someone is looking down at all the people on Earth--seeing people do amazing things with their lives, travelling, falling in love, getting really into something they really like. And this someone thinks "I can't wait to get a chance to do all these things!"

This someone also sees people who aren't making the best of their lives, who find themselves too lazy (or something) to do things they really want to and go on with their lives.

But this someone doesn't count on reality--circumstances that influence your behavior, that it's a lot harder to think as objectively and clearly when you're actually in the middle of your life.

So the reason people are lazy is because they are a little scared. A little scared to step out of their comfort zone. Or scared of being hurt. Or being hurt again. Or being at a complete loss of what to do. And this gets in their way of taking advantage of opportunities, and the excuse is laziness and tiredness.

Speaking of tiredness--I am tired. It's 1:07 in the morning. I'm going to bed.

<3 Chiya

PS: Live a good life while you have time, because that's what it's for.

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury..."
--Shakespeare

But it does signify something. Not something especially shiny in the grand scheme of things, but important to people. (The people here on this "pale blue dot".)