Save Yo' Heart

"Hey. Look up. Open your eyes. Poke yourself a few times. You're real. Poke yourself in your eye or something. It'll probably hurt. Yeah, you feel pain just like everyone else. Think of your favorite memory. Smile. Yes. You feel peace and a sense of happiness just like everyone else. It's crazy because really, we aren't all that different. Lay claim to the evidence, cuz it's there. Our DNA might be significantly different, but generally, everything is more or less the same. Physically, yeah. Generally speaking.

"From the way we breathe to the way we bleed, we're all the same. We all blink and we all get scared. Everyone falls down at one point and we all have that one thing we want more than anything. Each one of us has more than likely felt pain beyond all measure and chances are we have all laughed at least one time until we cried. From the way we are born to the way we die, we are the same.

"Our looks are different. Some people are just beautiful. Some just... aren't. Some people are tall, and I'm just... not. Some people have great eyes and some are dull. Our noses are longer or shorter than the person's next to us and we all have crazy hair every now and then... Yeah.

"Still, though the physical aspects are generally identical, we are each individually significant. And the significance and greatest amount of difference lies in each person's heart and mind.

"We all think differently. What one kid might think is probably completely opposite to what you think. We are all entitled to our own opinions and theory has it that humanity will never all agree on one thing at one hundred percent. Remember, there's someone, somewhere that disagrees with you. Guaranteed.

"Deep within, beyond the walls of our mind, lies our memories and thoughts. Our pasts have shaped us into who we are today, and each individual thought moves us further into the moment we're currently in. Whether it be simple memories or stupid mistakes, we're built by our histories into the people we stand up to be today.

"Because no one lives the same exact life as the person next to them, or any one else in the entire world for that matter, and because all of our pasts have different factors and moments, the people we are now are different as well. It's basic algebra; if the numbers are different, the sum will also be different.

"Next are our hearts. We love the same. We all hurt in love, all the same. We all feel alive in love, all the same. Enough said...

"Maybe not enough, but I'm lazy. Really, our hearts are as capable as anyone else alive. It's all there; all the tools to live, drive on and love are within them to push us through. Use them. Live. Love. Carry on. Do carry on.

"Save your heart.

"Because what the guy says about your beauty or what the girl thinks about your wimpy abs may be important now, but what matters is if they see you for you. If they see your heart. If they open up your heart and help you unleash the powerful emotions and great spirit inside, and if they look into your mind and try to grasp everything you are.

"Save your heart for someone that will stay up all night with you. Someone who will buy you flowers, fight with you over who pays for the night, and argue who loves each other more. Save your heart for the person that loves you for who you are, not for what you do. Save your heart for someone worth dying for and someone worth living for.

"And I guess I don't just mean someone to be in love with. I mean friends, as well. Your closest friends will be the ones that accept you for you above all else. And they will love you because you are you and you are different than Earth's other six billion inhabitants.

"Just realize you mean the world to a lot of people. I sure hope I do.

"Save your heart, for someone who will pick you up when you fall to the very bottom. Save it for someone worth the risk and pain. And when you can barely move, just slowly brush yourself up and open up. Because who knows, maybe it's right.

"Don't just give it to the first bum that asks for it. You'll know when it's right, you will. I can't tell you how or when. You just will know. I guarantee it. Don't search. Just wait. It will come if and when it needs to.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm getting to my point.

"We'll all lose someone we thought was supposed to be in our lives forever. We'll struggle to find ourselves. We'll feel the sorrow and pressure to find the person for us. But you can't change a thing; words aren't enough for me to tell you..

"There is no one like you on this planet. I don't know your name. I don't know who you are, but you are significant. No one can be you. No one can replace who you are because though you are one in six billion on this world, you still have an entire world within your head that's someone else's for the taking. Another person like you is impossible to find.

"So don't forget that. I mean it. I don't have to know you to say so. Just always remember that. Thank ya."

-GV

PS, I apologize for the sloppiness, grammatical errors if they are any, and the jumpiness/disorganization of this one. I tried... But I'm tired. Night.