Starting this blog, I had no clue what I was going to do with it. I was the new girl at a new high school and I was marking my journey into not being someone who I thought I should be or who people thought I should be, but just plain Taylon. A year later, I’ve found and held steadfast to the person I chose to be. I found my voice and my place. However, I also lost a lot. I lost friends, homes, and a whole lot of childhood. Through what at the time seemed like hell and back, I found what I was looking for… me. And now I embark on my next journey of college, where I’m sure I will screw things up even more than I did previously, but through all the changes and all the constant moving, I keep running into the idea of how to live life.

And the truth is, people tell us how to live our lives everyday.

There’s people that tell us to live like were dying. There’s people that tell us to set goal and obtain them. There’a people who tell us to sleep more, then people who tell us to stop being so lazy. Ironically, no matter how many people tell us how to live life, it never gets easier to figure out.

Life’s messy, it’s not black and white. And when we’re given opportunities, when the pitcher throws us a curve ball, we have what seems like milliseconds to decide what we’re going to do with what we’re dealt. Those in a flash choices that are made in an instant are what decide the path of our entire lives.

Some choose to follow their passions, to live shortsightedly, to play it safe, or to not play at all, but what people seem to have a hard time understanding is you can’t define life in one sentence… or even at all. You can’t say how to live and then attest every following action to it. There are stipulations. There are things to consider.

You can’t put life in a little box with a pretty label.

People say follow your heart, then caution to be realistic. They say shoot for the stars, but still be logical.  We decipher what’s worth fighting for. What’s worth risking in the short run, to hopefully be prosperous in the long run. We decide if the thing that makes us over-the-moon- happy now, is worth the possibility of hurt later in life. So yeah, needless to say making choices isn’t all that easy because life itself isn’t all that simple to figure out.

However we try to decide to live our lives, what we can’t forget that it is indeed, OUR lives. We have to live with the choices we make or wight he regret of not taking a chance. So growing up and being given so many opportunities, going through times when we have to struggle to let go of an old life, or just trying to make sense of what’s handed to us, whatever it is, it’s ours to live.

Life isn’t simple. Life isn’t a cookie-cutter picture with a how-to guide. However, the adventure of life itself makes whatever happens completely and totally worth it. Sometimes, you find something, that despite all the decisions and the fear that comes with a brand new city, still manages to remind you how incredibly beautiful life truly is, no matter where you happen to end up.

Signed With Love,

-T