Dear Life,

Thank you for stars and birthday candles, and their inability to make wishes come true. Thank you for disease and miracles, and hope for finding a cure. Thank you for scars, and the stories that come with them. Thank you for fireflies, and their ability to light the way, highlight summers of an All-American childhood, and teach us to chase after what we want most. Thank you for "friends" who stab us in the back, teaching us that the only ones we can ever really trust is ourselves. Thank you for the failures that make us appreciate our accomplishments.



Thank you for bubbles, and the way that they remind us of the fragility of the universe, and how everything can be gone in an instant. Thank you as much for the supporters as the nonbelievers, who gave us something to prove. Thank you for the followers who gave us the chance to lead. Thank you for society's twisted ways, giving us expectations to shatter. Thank you for white butterflies, and their wings, untainted by color, reminding us to appreciate the pureness in simplicity. Thank you for crazy teachers, and their accidentally-inspirational ways. Thank you for the humbleness that comes with the absence of money. Thank you for the people around us who give us reasons to smile on bad days.



Thank you for the contradictions that enhance the truth. Thank you for ripped seams, reminding us that there are some things that just can not be contained. Thank you for false hope, and staircases that lead to nowhere. Thank you for Hello Kitty Band-Aids, and their ability to heal even the deepest wounds. Thank you for blue Slurpees, and the way that they stain our lips and teeth, revealing our failure to fight temptation. Thank you for innocence, before it is shattered by truth.