what it feels like

the funny thing about life is, unless you live it, you never really know.

you can hear a thousand times a story told,

but you never really know what it feels like.

some of the things you would never want to feel

you don't know a mistake until you've made one,

until you've carried the weight of remorse in your heart,

until you collapse beneath it.

you don't really know the bottom until you've hit it,

until gravity has held you captive there,

and your strength is not enough.

you don't really know love until you've fallen in it,

thrown caution to the overwhelming windstorm,

until you can't imagine life any more complete.

you never know beauty until you behold it,
until you've felt the utter inability to think or speak,
and it beholds you,

you never really know life until you live it.

and so the only life you can ever know is your own.

and that's a beautiful truth.

(live your life. feel it all the way through. you are the only one who can.)