Life isn't about keeping score.
It's not about how many friends you have
Or how accepted you are.
Not about if you have plans this weekend
or if you're alone.
It isn't about who you're dating,
who you used to date,
how many people you've dated,
or if you haven't been with anyone at all.
It isn't about who you have kissed,
It's not about sex.
It isn't about who your family
is or how much money they have
Or what kind of car you drive.
It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are.
Or what clothes you wear,
what shoes you have on,
or if your skin is too light or too dark.
how smart you are,
how smart everybody else thinks you are,
It's not about what clubs you're in
or how good you are at "your" sport.
It's not about representing
your whole being on a piece of paper
and seeing who will "accept the written you."
But, life is about who you love
and who you hurt.
It's about who you make happy
or unhappy purposefully.
It's about keeping or betraying trust.
It's about friendship,
used as a sanctity or a weapon.
It's about what you say and mean,
maybe hurtful, maybe heartening.
About starting rumors
and contributing to petty gossip.
It's about what judgments you pass and why.
And who your judgments are spread to.
It's about who you've ignored
with full control and intention.
It's about jealousy,
fear, ignorance, and revenge.
It's about carrying inner hate and love,
letting it grow, and spreading it.
But most of all,
it's about using your life
to touch or poison other people's hearts
in such a way
that could have never occurred alone.
Only you choose the way
those hearts are affected,
and those choices are
what life's all about.