by Jo Anne-Patricia Piccarillo

Created on: June 25, 2009

I drive around looking into car windows, people walking on the streets, or shopping in the stores and I wonder what life really means to all those different faces. The happy ones with their extended smiles and hands are usually the most miserable. They remain highly confused with their lost souls that silently help so many people day by day with just a smile or an open ear. The blocks somehow get longer as the smoke fills my car, choking all its inhabitants. The higher I get and the more shallow faces I subject myself to, the more I wonder...who will be there tomorrow and who will be left as part of yesterday?

I look at all the young girls now flaunting their undeveloped bodies in over developed clothing. All the guys starring and throwing out comments as if age does not come attached with a jail sentence. As their disrespect and hormone rages disguist me, I wonder if this is what MY little sister goes through while walking down the street. I pity all the guys who see a female body, whether it is wrapped in tight jeans or baggy sweatpants and start beeping. Or the girls who hear the slightest echo of base and within seconds turn around like a twelve year old could have sex appeal.

Did you ever stop and wonder how many people in your life have actually taught you something, or made you stop to think, just once? The ones who do are usually the ones who are too scared to get close. Yet, are they really too scared or too smart? The unknown is what intrigues inquiring minds. People want what they cannot have and are not appealed to anything less of a challenge.

Subconsciously, absent-minded people cause most of the heartbreak in the world. People who don't realize what they say or do, or how it will affect others. But what about the people who do realize? Some people are attentive to every word, both said and unsaid, but are too passive to ever speak what is on their mind. Those, are the people who should be worried about. Instead, society tends to focus on those who have an opinion about everything...whether it is their own opinion or not.

Love is what makes the world go round and ignorance is the enemy that kills it. People wait their entire lives to find true love, but let it casually slip away because they fall in love only to realize that nothing is perfect. Love is not that hard to find. However, that ease comes with realizing that everyone will always have something to say. People need to follow their hearts and not the words which come from the minds of by-standers. Everyday, every second, there are couples falling in love. Some spend their entire lives trying to be close to that one person who they will never be close to and fail to realize that everything they want lies within a person trying desperately to be close to them.

The only dependable fact about life is that everyone who steps into it, molds a piece of the master sculpture. The lasy in the store who gives you the change, the backstabbing friend, even the end your mother made up to your favorite bedtime story, all mold us into the person we have become when it is our time to pass.

Death does not scare me. It is leaving all the people that I have actually made a difference to that scares me. I have most more people than I have let in...to my world of assumptions, analyzations and fears. The fear to love, the fear to get close and the fear to let go. "To the world, I may be one person, but to one person, I just may be the world." A famous quote that has become a thought which is enough for me to realize that if I could mean that much to at least one person throughout my life, being myself, than I have accomplished the greatest aspect this life has to offer.

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