What Doesn't Break You (Ashton Irwin Fanfic)

Chapter 1

AN: Okay, this is the first fanfiction/short story thingy I've ever done, so if it sucks I'm sorry. I just thought I would try it out. I realy love writing, and reading fanfics is fun so this is my attempt at an Ashton fanfic. It will get better I promise. i have no idea how long to make the chapters either so... yeah. Bare with me here. Lol

A.J.'s POV:

Life is a funny thing. No one really knows how to define it for themselves, let alone try to explain it to someone else. It can be really easy if you just let everything go with the flow, and not think about all the different aspects that make up a life. If you sit down and just think about the basic stages of life, it doesn’t seem complicated at all.

Every life has a beginning and an end, and we all travel through each of its stages as we grow older, and deal with the growing pains that come upon us in each of those stages. When I hear people giving out advice about how to live life and deal with problems, it always sounds like the person giving out the advice is relating it to something they have already experienced. Like an old couple giving a pair of newlyweds a few tips on how to make a marriage last.

First I think, yeah trust the older couple. They are the veterans, they’ve been there and done that, and they’re still together. Why wouldn’t you trust their advice? Right? But then I think, they also probably lived a very different life than those whom they are advising. They grew up separately, possibly in a different state or country, and came in contact with different people. They also grew up in a different time period.

Why would advice from a completely different set of people be helpful to someone else. I guess my point here is, why would you assume that your life experiences are similar to someone else’s, and thereby give advice based off a most likely false similarity.

This is the hard way of looking at it. Where you don't know who to trust or how to process all that life throws at you, yet you are certainly not the first person in the world to experience it. People all around the world get dealt a different hand, and yet we all seem to be going through the same things.

Life is full of both hardships and victories. People have ups, and then downs, and then eventually up again, and it just keeps going and going until your life is over. That sounds kind of shitty to put it that way, but it’s true. From what I’ve learned about life, though, is that even though the good stuff doesn’t always stick around forever, everyone starts out with the essentials in order to make themselves happy.

The difference between those who live and stay happy for the most part in life and those who get swallowed by their hardships, is the choices they make and the knowledge that we own our own happiness. A lot of people fail to see that they in fact have all the tools they need to live a happy life simply by being able to wake up and take a breath in the morning. No matter what hand you’ve been dealt in life, everyone starts out at the same starting line, and everyone finishes at the same finishing line.

One of the things that make us all equal with one another is that we all start out with one thing in common. With someone to look after us. Someone to love us. Some people aren’t born into families with two parents, or even blood relatives for that matter, to care for them.

Sometimes a child will be brought up in a broken home, but they never know the difference because they don’t know what it is that they’re missing. They grow up lacking the essential parts of a traditional family, but its ignorance of what a whole family feels like that makes them able to function. It makes them tough.