Keep the Faith
Needs
You will hear this countless times in your life, but it is a proven fact that everyone needs something.
Whether it be a best friend or a boyfriend or a girlfriend; someone to hold you close, someone to help you away. Someone to show you the difference between right and wrong, someone to show you you must live in the way which you choose, someone to show you life is not being lived until you have your own mind and are looking through your own eyes.
It could be a soulmate or a stranger; the milkman, the postman, the green grocer, the librarian? Maybe a teacher, or a doctor, or a therapist, or a social worker? Maybe a family member, friend, pet, pot plant? For it needn't be a human being. Whether it be a favourite person or a favourite colour or even a favourite food; something that brightens up your day or something that brightens up your life.
Some people have needs that are nothing to do with themselves, but wind up making them feel good anyway- charity work, giving blood, babysitting, dog walking, coming from a working-class family and knowing that the food you eat and the bed you sleep in is nothing but what you deserve.
And so it makes you think; if it's easy enough to give into needs, is it just as easy to give out to them? To forget them? To let them go?
To throw away the feelings and the faith you had is not a crime, so you should not be punished. There is no law against what is right and wrong if it's a mere conflict of emotions inside your own head. Just do not think giving up on something that once made you whole will somehow contribute to making you happier. If you can go on without it and it simply isn't for you, then fine. Get on with your life. But from first hand experience and too many front-row views, I know that if anything, it makes you weaker.
Do not forget you will always need something.
But take a moment in reading this and think about another well-known expression.
You don't know what you've got until it's gone.
Some people let go forever. Some people let go for a little while but almost immediatly come running back. Some people just lose track of what matters and what is important, only to chase around the most saught-after need of all: time.
For if you have time, endless time, you have forever. And if you have forever then you do not notice the things that matter most.
You do not notice the cracks in the concrete or the bricks beneathe the glowing graffiti. You do not notice the pleasure that comes of those silly little things, like eating too much candy on Halloween or running so fast, so very very fast, and you know you could fall over at any second but it's just like when you were young, when you ran and ran and ran away from something that didn't exist, and you didn't care, you just kept running.
If you have forever you don't have anything real. You can have until the end of time, you can have until the day you die, but what you will hear from not only me is that you cannot have forever.
Some people refuse to believe this. They settle down with their need and they live their life and they let themselves and everyone around them know, it's forever. They take nothing for granted. They recognise and relate to all that is thrown their way.
And believe me, though it completely contradicts everything I just said, it doesn't bother me to say I am one of these people.
I have a connection. An obession. A devotion, a passion. A limit, a goal. A neverending cycle of hope and freedom, somewhere I belong and someone I belong with. I have a dream. I have a wish. I have a reason. But better than that, I have five reasons. Five people, five heroes, but that's not where it ends. Each of them make up one fifth of why I am alive, and for that I am eternally grateful.
I have warmth. I have comfort. I have a smile and a frown and a bucket of tears. I have an entire ocean, a rainbow, a shooting star, something to hold onto when everything else is falling apart. Like every other human being I have my special something.
I have love. I have faith.
And regardless of what anyone else thinks or says, it's enough to get me through anything.
So stop. Stop and think, before you let go, before you forget.
I'm telling you, I am telling you, we all need something.
And I mean this from the bottom of my heart;
I need him.
Whether it be a best friend or a boyfriend or a girlfriend; someone to hold you close, someone to help you away. Someone to show you the difference between right and wrong, someone to show you you must live in the way which you choose, someone to show you life is not being lived until you have your own mind and are looking through your own eyes.
It could be a soulmate or a stranger; the milkman, the postman, the green grocer, the librarian? Maybe a teacher, or a doctor, or a therapist, or a social worker? Maybe a family member, friend, pet, pot plant? For it needn't be a human being. Whether it be a favourite person or a favourite colour or even a favourite food; something that brightens up your day or something that brightens up your life.
Some people have needs that are nothing to do with themselves, but wind up making them feel good anyway- charity work, giving blood, babysitting, dog walking, coming from a working-class family and knowing that the food you eat and the bed you sleep in is nothing but what you deserve.
And so it makes you think; if it's easy enough to give into needs, is it just as easy to give out to them? To forget them? To let them go?
To throw away the feelings and the faith you had is not a crime, so you should not be punished. There is no law against what is right and wrong if it's a mere conflict of emotions inside your own head. Just do not think giving up on something that once made you whole will somehow contribute to making you happier. If you can go on without it and it simply isn't for you, then fine. Get on with your life. But from first hand experience and too many front-row views, I know that if anything, it makes you weaker.
Do not forget you will always need something.
But take a moment in reading this and think about another well-known expression.
You don't know what you've got until it's gone.
Some people let go forever. Some people let go for a little while but almost immediatly come running back. Some people just lose track of what matters and what is important, only to chase around the most saught-after need of all: time.
For if you have time, endless time, you have forever. And if you have forever then you do not notice the things that matter most.
You do not notice the cracks in the concrete or the bricks beneathe the glowing graffiti. You do not notice the pleasure that comes of those silly little things, like eating too much candy on Halloween or running so fast, so very very fast, and you know you could fall over at any second but it's just like when you were young, when you ran and ran and ran away from something that didn't exist, and you didn't care, you just kept running.
If you have forever you don't have anything real. You can have until the end of time, you can have until the day you die, but what you will hear from not only me is that you cannot have forever.
Some people refuse to believe this. They settle down with their need and they live their life and they let themselves and everyone around them know, it's forever. They take nothing for granted. They recognise and relate to all that is thrown their way.
And believe me, though it completely contradicts everything I just said, it doesn't bother me to say I am one of these people.
I have a connection. An obession. A devotion, a passion. A limit, a goal. A neverending cycle of hope and freedom, somewhere I belong and someone I belong with. I have a dream. I have a wish. I have a reason. But better than that, I have five reasons. Five people, five heroes, but that's not where it ends. Each of them make up one fifth of why I am alive, and for that I am eternally grateful.
I have warmth. I have comfort. I have a smile and a frown and a bucket of tears. I have an entire ocean, a rainbow, a shooting star, something to hold onto when everything else is falling apart. Like every other human being I have my special something.
I have love. I have faith.
And regardless of what anyone else thinks or says, it's enough to get me through anything.
So stop. Stop and think, before you let go, before you forget.
I'm telling you, I am telling you, we all need something.
And I mean this from the bottom of my heart;
I need him.