In a world were people live hard and die young, our experiences are always limited to short moments that can be the be all and end all of everything. One moment can come back to being a regret, a loss in a relationship, a ton of heartache or the most amazing experience for your life. When we continuously abuse our bodies for a good time one has to wonder whether or not we as youth will last, and in that, ask ourselves the ultimate question, how long will our youth last. We are not young forever, and we could potentially die in the next second, minute, or day. Life is short, is all I’m trying to say. And with all the grudges and unnecessary anger left to us from a string of poor decisions and lack of understanding we are left with the un challenged notion that it is all trivial.

Amongst an amazing group of friends that I had not seen in a long time I realised the importance of letting go of any past regrets that I once had to anyone. The thing is was this was not a new feeling for me. What struck me as surprising was the re-realisation of the fact that the people who actually care about you will make an effort, they will always bring you up and never look down on you because your self worth is what they value as well. For others you’re as nothing as anything else in the world. Disposable, replaceable and never ever good enough.

These people disguise their selfishness with care and their need to have you around, but really all they are threats to what you have the potential to become. MY greatest regret is trying to fit in with people who quite clearly judge and carry pre-conceived notions of who I am as a person rather than finding it all our for themselves. They’re happiness is a façade, because they cannot value you in that special way that others can.

When we lend our trust to these people we forget why we had issues of trust to begin with and instead let them in and invest our feelings and time because we have this false notion that it will be worth it. The thing is, more times than not, it isn’t, and that is the most discouraging thing that could happen… for us to lose faith and trust in another person based on their selfish values.

BUT, they’re is always that one time, that one instance where it pays off because you in turn have met and connected with something so amazing that you cant believe that what’s in front of you actually exists. Whether that is with an object, an experience, another beautiful person, or a large 40kg canine that somehow captures your heart, it doesn’t matter because that revives hope, and is all we need as part of the human experience.

In order to feel that, to realise all that good, one must let go of unnecessary hate, of all the things bringing us down and tearing us apart little by little, because even though that person, place or thing deserves our hate, it does not deserve us to lose our hope, our faith and most of all ourselves as we become slaves to it.

Life is short, it is in our youth that we can die, and that is where we hold the most regret. Life is worth living and let no one else tell you otherwise.