My life

I cannot simply explain my life to you, and I do not care to try.
My life cannot be summed up in a matter of words. I cannot put a few paragraphs together that will take you from my infancy to the present and properly give you an overview of who I am. That is not how I see my life.
Life is not a list of all the specific events that have happened. Not explained by stories of the time I had stitches or the time I graduated or the day I moved on my own. Life is characterized by the hardships and successes we each face.
Life is about the resilience I learned when I got back up after bumping my head; it is about the dedication that it took to see out my high school education and receive a diploma; it is about the fear of leaving home and the knowledge I have gained since making a home of my own.
Do not allow your life to be summarized in a string of events. Those events are not a description of who you are. Instead, allow each moment to fill you with so much emotion that you are constantly carrying each achievement and lesson learned with you. For that will come to define you.