We're all given just one life to live. And no matter what anyone says, it's true, life is short. You don't even know how fast time travels. Just yesterday, when I got my excellence award. And today, I have just a few days left for my boards! And let's see how much I've valued life in those few days. Or wait, have I? Have I forgotten to be grateful that I have so much with me, have I forgotten to be grateful for the life God has bestowed me with? Have I forgotten that I am my own person, not a page out of someone else's notebook? Have I forgotten to be MYSELF? Today I wake up feeling liberated. The sun is shining, and it's shining right down on me. The sky looks blue. Why, I wonder. Have I forgotten to look at it so long? Have I become such a self centred person, that everything around me except ME seems dull? Have I made myself the only white in my black and white world? I've been gifted this one life, to make what I have of it. Not to be happy or sad by what OTHERS think of me. I have to be happy for myself. If I pull a red shirt out, I have to wear it because I LIKE red, not because someone else said it was a good colour. I have to live for myself, for in the end, I am all that I have. I'm not to let anyone else run my life for me. I'm to let THEM take MY pain away with them, when they leave, and the footprints left in my heart should be of what I have learnt, not of what THEY have put me through. I have to learn from my mistakes, not make the same ones again. It's a beautiful day. It's a beautiful life. I've just forgotten how to love it. But there's still time, still time for me to wake up and realize, yes, the glass may be half empty, but as Piku said, it's also half full! And so, in the words of Kelly Clarkson

Grew up in a small town And when the rain would fall down I'd just stare out my window Dreaming of what could be And if I'd end up happy I would pray Trying hard to reach out But when I tried to speak out Felt like no one could hear me Wanted to belong here But something felt so wrong here So I'd pray I could break away I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly I'll do what it takes, till I touch the sky And I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change And break away Out of the darkness and into the sun But I won't forget all the ones that I love I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change And break away Wanna feel the warm breeze Sleep under a palm tree Feel the rush of the ocean Get on board a fast train Travel on a jet plane Far away, and break away… I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly I'll do what it takes, till I touch the sky And I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change And break away Out of the darkness and into the sun But I won't forget all the ones that I love I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change And break away Buildings with a hundred floors Swinging round revolving doors Maybe I don't know where they'll take me But, gotta keep moving on, moving on Fly away, break away I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye, gotta Take a risk, take a chance, make a change And break away Out of the darkness and into the sun But I won't forget the place I come from I gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change And break away Break away Break away… Yes, today, I will break away….

Originally posted by Akanksha 'Nemesis' Chawla