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** Guiding Question: **  What makes life worth living?  **Philosophy Statement: ** Life is a journey and one should live each and every day like it was his or her last. However, we cannot reach this because mankind has a mental blockage due to the components that build up slowly, making girls self-conscious and suggesting they are not good enough. These blockages are those of the unconscious thoughts that slowly started crawling to the forefront of the conscious. If we believe we are imperfect, we hide ourselves from society by wearing a veil, for instance. We then isolate ourselves from friends and family. We endure this experience believing that we need to be a block of clay, molded in a certain way under the pressure of society. These components break the confidence humanity has, making others desperately reaching out of their reach in order to reach that perfection; and if they were to fail, they’d believe they have failed. I believe that people need to achieve certain enlightenment in their souls, being able to then admire themselves both on the inside and out, rather than molding themselves into something so original. And that is what makes life worth living. Here I will hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.

 My best friend gave me the best advice He said each day’s a gift  and not a given right, To be awake is to be alive.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Nature never wears a mean appearance.  I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it, I am mad for it to be in contact with me.  The atmosphere is not a perfume,  <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Had no affinity with the air of heaven, <span style="color: #6fc880; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">With the fresh warmth of a full-summer day <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Reeked up from the decayed trees and the gray wall, <span style="color: #f63904; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">It has no taste of the distillation. <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #c0632a; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">And the tide rises, the tide falls. But the sea, The sea in darkness calls.

The day returns, but nevermore <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">A gentle face—the face of one long dead Here in this room she died, And soul more white. <span style="color: #ff6600; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">The legend of a life more benedight, Displays a cross of snow upon its side. And season change, Changeless since the day she died <span style="color: #ff6600; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #c4a836; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Half lay in a puddle of blood, With her legs crossed under her, Like a child’s and her face smiling up at a cloudless sky. <span style="color: #ff6600; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Leave the lost and dead behind. <span style="color: #ffc600; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">For his spirit is now in the wind- combined with nature to become one. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #6badc7; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Render an honest and a perfect man, There is the man //and// his virtues. I suppose no man can violate his nature. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Mankind //has// lost its own say in its future <span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">We’re destruction at it’s finest We feed on the irony

<span style="color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">We drink hypocrisy We are everything we hate But we have everything we need. <span style="color: #ff6600; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Leave no stone unturned. Leave your fears behind. And try to take the path less traveled by - That first step you take is the longest stride. <span style="color: #ff6600; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #808000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Forgive - sounds good. Forget, I’m not sure I could. But <span style="color: #ff6600; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late, Do whatever it takes ‘cause you can’t rewind a moment in this life, ‘cause the hands of time are never on your side.

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