Sometimes you need to step away from certain things to make them better. You need to stop fighting things that you can't change - like time, or wherever life may take you.
Sometimes you need to focus solely on the pretty things in life and ignore the bad. All bad experiences will eventually create who you are and make you stronger. If you've never been hurt, you'll never learn how to fight.
Life is adapting, changing, evolving. Life can be incredibly hard or too good for words. Life is harder for certain people than for others but that doesn't take away the fact that life is the same to all people, no matter what ever happened - and that anything can be changed.
You have dreams for a reason. You need to learn to chase your dreams and to believe in them, because if you truly do, sooner or later they will come true.
If there's anything I've learned over the last few years it is to never give up. No matter what happens or how bad you feel, don't give up because there will be an abundance of love and happiness someday.. and you don't wanna miss that. I wouldn't.
Over the past few weeks my life has gotten a lot more serious for reasons that I can't tell yet (no I'm not pregnant) and I still have bad days but I try to climb out of them now by doing whatever I can.

Just last week I was told that someone I know has aids. Two or three months ago she got pregnant and a couple of months ago she and her boyfriend moved to Africa to run a hotel there. She's keeping the baby and she's got one more year to live. Her boyfriend will eventually be raising their child alone.
Her courage and hope has encouraged and inspired me in an unbelievably big way. And whenever I think bad thoughts, I think to myself: at least you have a life ahead of you and at least you keep getting more chances to make your life better.

I'm trying to live my life like everything I've written above but I can't deny that very often I don't feel like living anymore, and I don't feel like fighting anymore. But everything can be cured and eventhough I don't know yet what I'm fighting for.. someday I will. I'm sure of that.

"Energy begets energy, love begets love and sadness begets sadness.

You move forward whether you like it or not. You keep putting each foot in front of the other and you make yourself taste food again and you make yourself smile again and you move on. You have to - it's your job as a human. To give up on everything is to say you had nothing to offer in the first place. The reality is that we are all going to know this pain. It's a very real expectation.

THIS IS HOW WE GROW. This is how we LEARN. This is how we LIVE and, God willing, this is how we LOVE.

We are all wired to need each other. If we don't, we close the doors on our own revolution. We deny ourselves the right to be free and human and loved, so embrace this chaos we call emotion. Never let yourself feel like you can't be wide open, because the only people on this planet that can hold us back are the ones who stare us down in the mirror. It's a cruel catch-22 sometimes, knowing that we can give power to others over how we feel and love. I'd rather know and hope that there's someone out there for me who is waiting and ready to claim me as their own. Hopefully, you know exactly how I feel."
- Corey Taylor


Love, grow, experience, fight, cry, hate, dream, never give up. (L)