It's not about your shoes or your hair
or the color of your skin
or where you live or go to school.
In fact, it's not about grades, money, clothes,
or colleges that accept you or not.
Life isn't about if you have lots of friends,
or if you are alone, and it's not about how
accepted or unaccepted you are.
Life just isn't about that.
But life is about who you love and who you hurt.
It's about how you feel about yourself.
It's about trust, happiness, and compassion.
It's about sticking up for your friends and
replacing inner hate with love.
Life is about avoiding jealousy,
overcoming ignorance, and building confidence.
It's about what you say and what you mean.
It's about seeing people for who they are
and not what they have.
Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone
else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise.
These choices are what life's about.