What do you choose?

by Tabetha King   Apr 22, 2023


Some people go through their lives searching for love and children and stability,
Some people go through their lives searching for fame and wealth and power,
And the rare sum of people goes through their lives wanting nothing.
The people that search for these things and actually achieve them are unhappy
And yet they dedicate themselves to that search so that raises me to question their yearnings,
Did they ever really know themselves, or did they just guess they wanted something that other people had achieved and they thought gosh, those people really do look happy
Little do they know that the family that is always getting along across the street are on the verge of a divorce, running out of pennies and the children are going through therapy.
Little do they know why famous people spread all of their triumphs on Instagram is merely so they can smudge away the nothingness in their lives, and how lonely they are when they are on a vacation in the Maldives with all of their "friends" that they only have for status and alliances.
Nobody sees that when they are fresh out of year twelve who have passed and now have the decision to make.
Do they strive for something that leads to certain misery or go towards something that they think they want?
You dont know if either will make you happy until you drop yourself into the depths of fate and pray to any god listening that you dont become someone depressed with nothing to hold to except for the children you still need to raise or the number of people you influence.

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