6 Things I Know For Sure

This life can be a lot and most of the time I find it hard to keep up with; there’s so many things going on, so much that can go right or wrong. I don’t know a lot of things and I’m unsure about almost everything. Life is so unpredictable it’s hard to be absolutely sure of anything your experiencing or going to experience. There’s only a few things in this life that I’m absolutely sure of and everything else remains a mystery to me.

1. Knowledge Is Key

Education is something that’s a very valued thing within our society and for good reason because education makes you grow. It expands your mind and makes you think critically about the world and the information given to you. But knowledge isn’t just found in school, it’s found out in the real world; with the people you meet. The conversations, the books, the places you visit all help you grow, help you learn. These things help you become more knowledgeable and understand the world your in and that’s why knowledge is everything. If you stop learning then you will always stay the same and never improve into a better versions of your self.

2. You Are Always Changing

You are never the same person you were when you woke up in the morning. You are always changing and evolving and becoming new. I know that I am a different person then the me from 4 years ago, but I’m also different from the me I was a year ago, a month ago, a week ago too. We never stay the same and that’s one of the wonders of life. That we are not stuck as being forever in one mode; that would be absolutely dull. We have the opportunity to change by the experiences we have, the people we encounter and the lessons we learn. It’s a wonderful thing to not stay stagnant and to continuously improve.

3. Fear Stops Life

I am absolutely sure that fear stops people from living the lives they want. I am someone who always has lived in fears clutches and I’m only now starting to escape. We as people let fear stop us from being who we are and just being happy. You know, were afraid of looking weird, were afraid that people won’t understand, were afraid of love, of happiness, of change. Yet all those things will improve us; often good things are waiting on the other side of fear. It’s just ourselves who are holding us back; because were scared of rejection, of being alone, of what we know changing. But, we will never know or evolve if we let fear become us.

4. Life is confusing

This is one thing I know because life throws punches at you when you least expect it; there seems to be so many options and pathways you can take and making decisions on which one to embark on can be very difficult. There are just so many components to this life that makes it overwhelming and confusing and scary. The things that scare you often are also the things you want, or the very things that will change you for the better.

5. I Am My Own Person

Since I was little I have always been a patchwork of other people; of their thoughts, their beliefs, their ideas and opinions. I have always been a collection of everyone else and never really myself; I couldn’t see myself with everything blinding me. Only in recent years have I realized that I’m my own person with my own thoughts, with my own desires and own path in life not directly influenced by everyone who tells me that what I want is not possible. I have the ability to shape my life into whatever I want and the key thing here is that it’s my life and no one elses.

6. I Am Alive

I realize that this is pretty obvious if your taking it literally but for a long time I’ve felt like I was barely existing. Just skating through life and hoping things will improve but they rarely did, hoping to feel better, to be better. I came to the conclusion one day after looking at myself in the mirror that I am alive, that this life is mine. That I want to live in it and experience things and fail and succeed. I want to do stuff that makes me feel like I’m alive too. Go on first dates, travel, meet new people; just live. For the first time in a long time I want to live.

To conclude, life is a roller coaster and there are so many things to be unsure of and so many reasons to be unsure. One day I’ll know more things for certain; I’ll find my place in all this mess. But, for now I get to continue to grow, to become, to develop and that’s a gift in itself.