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Life isn't a movie trailer.
There is no cutesy music playing as montages
flash by, happiness then heartbreak
then healing
all rolled into a time slot of thirty seconds,
no narrator to tell the audience more than
we know about ourselves,
however we may wish that the
deep, sexy voice would come on
when we stand at a crossroads and don't know which way to go.
There are no cheesy quotes,
no close-ups of astounding emotion,
no clips of people kissing;
life is a constant struggle
of feeling,
gaining
losing
hoping
lying
laughing
straining
crying
living
dying.
That's not something that translates into a perfect story,
it's not something we can wrap up in a little package and give away.
We can't even make a movie about life
to make it look even remotely desirable.
Yet here we are, living life.
We may as well enjoy it, as we can, while we still can.
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