No One

No One

In our own minds, we're always the first person to do everything.

No one has ever hurt like this before,
No one has ever lost love before,
and even if they did,
No one has ever hurt this much before.

No one has ever kissed,
or held hands like this before
No one has ever wanted to die before
or lost hope and faith in happiness

To each of us, life has never been done before and we walk on it,
leaving the first footprints in the crunchy field of virgin snow.

Life's too short to be stressed out
Whatever happens will happen and we have limited control
Squeezing tighter won't give you more control, but less.

I'm not the first person to discover this, but like every great personal discovery,
we make it alone.

Every person that ever lived or will ever live will experience that moment,
or maybe several moments,
where your brain feels like it explodes
and yet the universe seems to shrink to the tiny amount of space
occupied by you and you feel supremely isolated,
filled with knowledge and the thrill of discovery where all the pieces finally click,
the lock that you've spent hours, days or years trying to pick
finally yields the treasure it's protecting.

We call this 'growing up',
and it can happen at 8 or 80,
but when it does, you know.

The mysteries of the universe are made real to you
and you feel electrified, alive with energy and neurons firing.

"I can mope and whine about something I can't change,
or, I can accept it and move on.
I can rage and flail about circumstances out of my control,
or, I can breathe, relax and accept that I am not
a genie with phenomenal cosmic power,
and that it is not the end of the world."

Sadness, loneliness and disappointment will happen.
If they did not, I would not be the type of person anyone would want to be around.
Changes, adaptation and evolution are what assure survival of the fittest.
And while I'm not liable to sprout wings or mutant super powers,
I can adapt, I can grow, I can change.

And when I do, I will be alone,
with every other person who has ever had that moment.