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Being the age that I am (which I will only say, is from 21-28), people assume you have gone through it all, and yet, assume you know nothing at all. I know about pain, but not enough to know what a first heartbreak feels like. I know about betrayal, but not enough to do betray someone else. I know about heartbreak, but from friends and family, and never a lover. I know, yet, I don’t. I am still so new to many things, and want to try things without fear of judgement or failure. But everyone expects you to try and fail, and still succeed. In school, work, amongst family and friends, with whomever you end up with. You feel stuck between what you should do and what you want to do. When did we ever determine that our lives should be a series checkmarks and expectations? Life is always unpredictable. 2 people can go through the exact same situation but come out of it 2 completely different people. Yet, we are still expected to feel certain things and have certain mindsets. Not one person in this world, living or dead, will ever go through the exact same life as another person. We live for experiences, live for change and love and new beginnings. We stay stuck in the story of someone else and accept the fate that they write about us in their book. When will we learn that there are billions of books walking around this earth, and billions of books buried six feet under? And we still are stuck trying to read one person’s book and rewrite it in our own words. When will we become the authors of our own original story?