Be Yourself & Help & Love Others

Just a little something I wrote using quotes and my own flow. Hope you like it, and hope you hear the message and follow it. :) It kind of goes with my social statement, and is kind of just poetry.

 Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions.

 Our emotions are what let us truly experience life.

 Freely we serve, because freely we love, as in our will, to love or not; in this we stand or fall.

 In this we are free.

 Freedom is not given, it's taken.

 A man does what he can until his destiny is revealed.

 And those with crucial powerful destinies have destinies that say:

 I belong to the warrior in whom the old ways have joined the new.

 People will forget what you said and what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 Except the marks humans leave are too often scars.

 You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

 So be yourself, because nothing ventured, nothing gained.

 If there's no venture, no vision, there's no legacy.

 Fear doesn't shut you down. It wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating.

 And there will come a moment when you have the chance to do the right thing.

 The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?

 Smooth seas do not make good sailors.

 What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

 If God is your partner, make your plans big.

 We're all hurting. What we can't do is block each other out. We need each other.

 God is good, all the time, and all the time, God is good.

 Faith is fear that has said it's prayers.

 If I perish, I perish.

 In tough times we are often paralyzed by fear of the unknown.

 But you - well, you're just a teenager right?

 No, you're not, you're so much more.

 To allow someone, anyone, to suffer is the greatest sin.

 So jump! The net will appear!

 You may be terrified of being yourself...

 You may be terrified of helping...

 But it probably would've been worth it.

 Don't come to the end of your life asking, "What if?"

 Do not imitate what is evil but what is good because it's not how hard you fall, it's how you get back up.

 Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible, and the greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

 Life isn't the amount of breaths you take, but the amount of moments that take your breath away. so not being heard is no reason for silence.

 Sometimes it laughs to love, but sometimes it hurts instead, and sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.

 So be yourself and help and love others.

Author's Note

This is part of my social statement, as well as just a poem. Tell me what you think in the comments. Yes, there are a lot of quotes, but at least 60% of it is me and my flow, not quotes, and I've never quite written like this before. (Although, I've seen my friends do it, like Jonah.) So this is new for me. Tell me honestly in the comments how you think I did and what you enjoyed and what you think I need to work on and all that jazz. Thank you for reading and for commenting if you're commenting. :)

Reviews

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Poetic prose captured in quotes perfectly assembled to state what you feel inside. The message in this poem is straight forward: be yourself and be a positive part of the human race. Often we allow our poor attitudes to dominate the direction in which we respond to the world around us and so we become complacent and fail to recognize (or ignore altogether) the plights of those around us. We will be measured, in the end at least, by how we respond to our world and our troubles. I enjoyed this piece very much and will take some time to read more of your work.

[The StoryTeller]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it, although, I have to say, not all my work is like this. But one of my favorite quotes that goes something like this is: "In the end you will not be judged by how you helped yourself. You will be judged by how you helped others." Thank you for deciding to review more of my work, and thank you for commenting. Oh, and the message to this is something I hope all people will do.

[Coyote Poetry]

Very good wisdom in your words.
" Sometimes it laughs to love, but sometimes it hurts instead, and sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same."
Nothing is easy. Anything worthwhile seem to be hard work. I like the ending. Thank you for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[The StoryTeller]

Lol, that almost seemed to sound like Thomas Edison's quote: "Most people miss opportunity because it is dressed in overalls and looks like hard work." I agree, that is one of our many problems, but I won't do that. I'm going to help others no matter how hard it is. thank you for reviewing, and I'm glad you liked it!

[Justin Xavier Smith]

I might just record this and put it on my ipod and play it on a loop throughout my day. This is very inspiring.

[The StoryTeller]

That would be completely fine with me. :D I know exactly what you meant, this is something (even though I wrote it) I need to listen to or read everyday. I wonder if anyone on here has a Youtube account they can record this for, and put it to a background music. I'd totally check it out. :) Glad you liked it, Justin.

[jonah]

yeaah that's the spirit, the enthusiasm of young generation! great work, Blade. today's culture promotes fame, glamour, drugs, and other exhausting lights. at least that's how I see it. and now you're here writing about a whole different thing: to find the value of life by sharing love, by living life to the fullest. this is a great effort to reveal the true meaning inside everyone. the idea to combine quotes with your own flow is unique. overall, the poem is good. a little advice, maybe you want to try to give more space to your true writing style so it strengthens the quotes and they can support each other in a more unique way.

[The StoryTeller]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it! I figure that I really don't want to conform to the things society wants us to think is important... And okay, maybe I'll do that although I don't really think my own writing could support this poem... But who knows, lots of people like it so XD

[Lizardo]

This is my favorite from you, it really is beautiful, awesome, I can't tell in words how awesome this is !
Great poem Blade, It's an amazing poem, I love everything about it

[The StoryTeller]

I'm glad you liked it. :D I made it using a variety of quotes (I love them, I have a notebook full of them XD) and making my own poetry lines and putting it together. Just getting a little creative. :P But really, I'm really glad you liked it. :)

[Ishita Dixit]

Different is good!
This was a fun and inspiring read.
I loved it! :)

[The StoryTeller]

I'm glad you liked it! This is another one I feel everyone should read, but I don't want to send out any read requests myself because I feel I've been sending too many lately... so I'm stopping for a week at the most.

[Ishita Dixit]

You're welcome!
And there is nothing such as 'too many read requests'.
I feel obliged when I get them as i am sure others do too.

[The StoryTeller]

Yeah, but I've gotten them and I keep replying to people's comments, etc, and then I run out of time... and I have like 3 friends that want me to read their work that haven't sent me RR (One is priority because he's my best friend irl) and then on top of that and everything else I'm managing, I have 44 RR.

[Ishita Dixit]

Well, prioritise. And we are all old enough to understand that we have a life outside this too. No one should feel bad if their work does not get immediate reviews by you. And if they do feel bad then, well, we are not here to please everyone!

[The StoryTeller]

I agree, we all have a life outside of this. And I don't think it's me specifically they want a review from, I think they just want a review in general. After all, my reviews aren't that good.

[Ishita Dixit]

Why the self doubt again?
Agreed they dont want your review specifically, but they want it all the same!

[The StoryTeller]

No self doubt in it, just honesty, and if I think about it, that seems pretty much like what they'd be doing. Although, there are some people I send RR too just because a.) they are very good friends to me, b.) they review a lot of my work, or c.) they give really good reviews, or d.) all of the above. I just assume most people on here don't think that way. No self doubt there at all. Well, maybe a tinge of it, but I removed that already.

[Ishita Dixit]

Good to know! :)

[The StoryTeller]

............ :P :)

[luvs2write]

The flow was a little different, but I don't think it was bad. My favorite stanza (yes, I have to do a favorite stanza instead of a favorite line...it was just that good) is stanza three. It's so true...like, if somebody does just one tiny nice thing for me I'll live off of it for a week. But if somebody does one tiny mean thing to me...I live off of it for a year. I hope the little things that I try to do make a difference. This is a good reminder to keep at it though...even when things get dark. Nice write. =)

[The StoryTeller]

I'm glad you liked it, and yes, it is quite different from what I'm used to creating. And I'm glad you got a very big point of mine I was trying to make on here. :)