YOLO?

     Yolo? The meaning.. You Only Live Once
This phrase has been made popular by non-other than the rapper Drake. And people have been very keen on this way of life. Meaning since they have only one life to live, that they should go out and do crazy things and just experiment with life, go out and have as much fun as they can. When you think of this you think of people “burning the candle at both ends”, which means people are living their lives bright. But as everyone knows, a candle which burns at both ends does not last very long. People need to understand life is much like the candle, you are born and the candle is lit. As you get older you may want to burn your candle a little bit brighter so you tip it to the sides as let the wax drip off creating a larger flame to flaunt your audacity, or you can be outrageous and light the other side as well and just burn up the candle bright and beautifully. The thing is, there are bad gusts of wind at random times which represent the bad things that happen in our life. When one is burning a candle at both ends, It’s impossible to protect both ends and one dies out.. while as one that’s being burned regularly has a chance to be protected and even then sometimes we aren’t so lucky.

    The thing is, the place I come from used to be a beautiful island where you almost never had to worry about walking five black away from your house alone. Now things are getting worse and people are going missing, being raped, or murdered on this 15 by five mile jungle infested island. The past two weeks I have had a very close friend of mine whose father and his older brother witness a woman being chased by a man who was attempting to rape her in Garapan (an area of the island) and she was trying to escape, running through the AMP nude while the man chased her with a pickup truck. Lucky my friend’s dad was there to scare off the man and save the woman. I don’t think they have found the man yet.. There is also a Sex offender who had spoken to one of my closest and dearest friends (Anyone I am a friend of is dear an close to me). Men like that don’t deserve to walk this plant if the people say that there is something in their brain that makes them do the things they do… Alas the one thing that has me worried the most.. There is someone truly special to me and something has happened. I don’t know what because she won’t tell me and I truly worry for her because she said it dealt with a guy and that’s all. She assures me that nothing has actually happened to her, but it was enough to shake her. Which is scary because this person is hard to scare and is very strong willed. I just wish that I had enough strength and power to prevent these terrible things.  I just hope she is ok, she doesn’t want to talk to me about it, but I would very much like to hear. She also says that she doesn’t want to tell me because I would worry and I probably will too… but I can’t help it if I care so much.

No to Yolo “It takes many years to make the life the way you want it, but only seconds and a bad choice to screw it up and have it never be the same”