Fear It is an accepted truth that the Unknown is one of the greatest and most crippling fears one can experience; yet it is the things we know that haunt us.

Want, Need, Love All children love their parents, it's only natural. But children don't really understand the concept of love. They love their parents because they need them. For some, that concept never changes, they love the people they feel they need, but that's not real love, is it? You don't really need someone you love, painful though it may be, you could, in fact, live without them. But you want someone you love. More than anything. A child loves because they need, but real love is needing because you love. At least, in my opinion.

Understanding Abandoned by everyone I knew, Left alone for anger to brew. What happened to me, why did they leave? Smothering darkness, can't seem to breathe. Hold on tight as nothingness looms, Crashes upon me and turns me to ruins. Scared and alone in a sky vast with stars, Painfully recalling long ago scars. I reach out to faith, to save me from sin, But it turns away, doesn't want me to win. I fall to despair, become twisted and cruel, If only I knew, I was being a fool. Taking the light and #life of those around, Letting the fire of hell be my hound. But one day the light through a smile was shown, And I understood that you reap what you've sown.

Understand I am as simple in my complexity as I am complex in my simplicity.

Smile Once, on my way home from classes, I passed a man I can't recall ever having met. As he walked by me, he looked me in the eye and said "Cheer up!", then continued on his way without ever looking back to see my reaction. Eventually his words had what I assume was the intended effect and I had a "Faith in humanity restored" moment. But later I had to stop and really think about what had just happened, because my initial reaction was not to smile. Just how jaded does a person have to be for the first thought they have after receiving a random act of kindness to be "Why did they even bother?"