I portrayed life as a swing. Many times there are people out there in the world who believe that nothing can ever be wrong at their sight. That can be a possibility, but we cannot live out here by deteriorating what we could have changed. At times we are overtaken by the power of certain little stigmas that astonishingly overshadow our lives. Such examples as when we feel superior to another person because of where we live or the money we have or even the car we are driving. I can remember an episode in my life when I was about 12 years old and I had a cousin who lived in very good conditions. We were the same age and he would always put me down, by telling me that I was poor and what so ever. I was young and little things like this really pushed my buttons. I always appreciated the fact that at that point of my life we were struggling to even eat anything on a single day. This situation really made me appreciate every single time my parents would go out and work for us to have something in our tummies. Now I see that same cousin of mine and I feel sad, yet appreciated at the same time. He has his own family, just like me, however, he has been struggling lately. I am not saying I am doing great, but I am surviving and I am working really hard every single working day in order to achieve. This is the reason I focused my thought on urging to the sensation that life is like a swing. When we are up high and doing great, then that feels really good. But when the swing goes down, and so those our life, then we feel really terrified.
I wrote a small poem that does not really rhyme. I focused this on the issue that a really closed friend has passed by and she decided to share the story.
How many times did I tell you crying
Don’t play with me don’t lie to me
Because your
Going to end up in the street
Wasted and lost selling your life.
I told you
Think of what you say
Don’t you see that life is like a swing
When the swing is up high
It feels really good
But once it goes down
That hurts very much
Now you see it
Today you see yourself lost
Selling your life
And here I am happy at life
Hope to god,
That you will soon dry up
And let the wind take you away
It’s not that I have hate for you
or would like to wish you your bad luck
but I would live appreciated
if at this time
you would go away from my life
Now you see it
Today you see yourself lost
Selling your life
And here I am happy at life.
I wrote a small poem that does not really rhyme. I focused this on the issue that a really closed friend has passed by and she decided to share the story.
How many times did I tell you crying
Don’t play with me don’t lie to me
Because your
Going to end up in the street
Wasted and lost selling your life.
I told you
Think of what you say
Don’t you see that life is like a swing
When the swing is up high
It feels really good
But once it goes down
That hurts very much
Now you see it
Today you see yourself lost
Selling your life
And here I am happy at life
Hope to god,
That you will soon dry up
And let the wind take you away
It’s not that I have hate for you
or would like to wish you your bad luck
but I would live appreciated
if at this time
you would go away from my life
Now you see it
Today you see yourself lost
Selling your life
And here I am happy at life.
I think that this is an incredibly accurate analogy, life is like a swing. Just like people often say that life is like a rollercoaster. We all have our ups and our downs and sometimes it takes a little bit of an extra shove to get your momentum going. If you’ve ever been on a swing you know that you get a funny feeling like butterflies in your stomach when you are going up and it is a little scary. And if you have ever fallen off a swing you also know that it hurts and it hurts badly. Often times you do not know how you are going to land when you fall off either and that is exactly the way that life is. When you are going up it’s a little scary and when you fall off it hurts and you don’t know where you are going to end up, some people are lucky and might only have a few bumps or bruises but sometimes people get really hurt. I know how it feels to have people make fun of you or think that they are better than you are and it is not fun, nor should it be acceptable. In my mind, everyone should have respect of each other regardless of wealth, power, age, race, ethnicity, religion, etc. It does not matter how different we all are, we all still have feelings and just as much as it would hurt you to be kicked while you are down, it would hurt someone else as well. I think that more people should think about that kind of stuff more often because like you said, life is like a swing and when you come down its scary and it hurts but when you are up it is the most amazing feeling.
ReplyDeleteDoesn’t it amaze you how sometimes the ones to bring you down and treat you the worst are your own family members. I was just having this discussion the other day, not related necessarily to family but ethnic groups. Once people, in I would say every race and or ethnicity, achieves a higher status than they once were, they tend to develop a superior attitude or become more judgmental than they once were. I tend to perceive these people as one’s who cannot handle power or an advanced social status because once they have received this status they go completely bizerk and forget where they come from and that they too once had to start at the bottom, usually. Relating life to a swing is very true in a way because as you are going up you get afraid and you hesitate a little because you are unsure and sometimes uncomfortable with moving so fast you are cautious about when you might come back down. I think that everything in life happens for a reason and as far as your cousin going through his financial struggle I think this was a way for him to learn how to humble his self and remember that things in our life should not be taken for granted, they should be taken with one stride at a time and one should learn how to appreciate what they have because it always someone who has less.
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