LIFE JUST ISN’T<P>Life isn't about keeping score.<BR>It's not about how many friends you have<BR>Or how accepted you are.<P>Not about if you have plans this weekend or if you're alone.<BR>It isn't about who you're dating, who you used to date, how many people<BR>you've dated, or if you haven't been with anyone at all.<BR>It isn't about who you have kissed,<BR>It's not about sex.<BR>It isn't about who your family is or how much money they have<BR>Or what kind of car you drive.<BR>Or where you are sent to school.<BR>It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are.<BR>Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, or what kind of music you<BR>listen to.<BR>It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, or brown<BR>Or if your skin is too light or too dark.<BR>Not about what grades you get, how smart you are, how smart<BR>everybody else thinks you are, or how smart standardized tests say you are.<P>It's not about what clubs you're in or how good you are at "your" sport.<BR>It's not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper and seeing<BR>who will "accept the written you."<P>LIFE IS<P>But, life is about who you love and who you hurt.<BR>It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully.<BR>It's about keeping or betraying trust.<BR>It's about friendship, used as a sanctity or a weapon.<BR>It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening.<BR>About starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip.<BR>It's about what judgments you pass and why. And who your judgments are<BR>spread to.<BR>It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention.<BR>It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge.<BR>It's about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow, and spreading it.<BR>But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other<BR>people's hearts in such a way that could have never occurred alone.<BR>Only you choose the way those hearts are affected, and those choices are<BR>what life's all about.<BR>
