(religious opinions included. if you don't agree, read it anyway. it won't kill you. xx)
Think about it: there is so much beauty on this earth. There are mountains so tall you can't breath, water so deep and vast that it's impossible for such a small existence as we humans are to explore it all. There are flowers and plants that grow for the sole purpose of that's what they're made to do, animals that roam the earth with pride and compassion, a sense of place and of home and of family, there are beautiful things made by even us, such as poems and stories of wild imaginations and people who will never exist and loves so true that they can only be written by those who comprehend the depth and emotions of the characters they so wildly create. There are plays and movies and music and sounds and speeches and all sorts of quiet majesty that is so unthought of that it's not even considered beautiful at first glance.
And there is also you. If there is a God who created all of this beauty with his own mind and knows the place of every object on this very earth, every motion and every action and every thought of every little person ever made, then why did He choose to put someone like you in this place full of beauty?
Because with beauty, there comes darkness. There is so much evil and peril and despair and turmoil that there has to be people who have seen the darkness and overcome it to help those in their process as well. You are a beautiful light that was created specifically do spectacular things, to go into those dark and desperate places and light up their world.
You are a shining being created in the midst of a time full of darkness that is dying for a spark.
But sometimes, our light gets darker. The worrisome wind blows our candle of light into a fragile flame, and maybe sometimes we're in a dark place where we can't see the light anymore.
And when you find yourself in a dark place full of things like doubt and depression and sadness, you may have to remind yourself that you were created for a reason. If God created such majesties as mountains and rivers and sunsets and stars and universes upon universes, then He must have created you with the same beauty and care that He created those. Even if you don't believe in this God, just know that somehow you were created with a purpose in this life and that you were created with the beauty of mountains inside and out, and the courage of wild animals.
Live a courageous life, because you were made with the same courageous passion that inspired courage and beauty to begin with. You are an immovable mountain, a body of water so deep that no human could ever fully realize the immense depth inside your mind. You are a bright green field full of the most magnificent flowers whose sole purpose is to keep you alive. You are a stunning animal whose beauty is unique and inextinguishable. You are a burning flame meant to light up the world.
Live as such.
