What It Means to Be Human

Family and Friends:

What is a family? What are friends? Does this add to the human experience? Most of us learn to love people and use things rather than love things and using people. We all need a family. Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

If we're going to be damned, let's be dammed for what we really are because I'm with you 'til the end of the line.

I never knew what a friend was until I met Geordi, He spoke to me as though I were human. He treated me no differently from anyone else. He accepted me for what I am. And that, I have learned, is friendship. A wise man once told me; family don't end in blood. But it doesn't start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them. Family is there for the good, bad, all of it. They got your back, even when it hurts, That's family.

There's nowhere I'd rather be when you're singing over be I just wanna be here with you.

Pain:

Why must we experience pain? What good does that do? It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yields its own reward. Some mistakes get made, that's alright, that's okay. Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice, even though everybody wants a happy ending, right? But it doesn't always roll that way. Part of the journey is the end.

You have to wrap your head around the notion that sometimes things end because your time there is done, and you are needed somewhere else. To be human is to be able to live a life with live and emotion, to be able to create, and to be able to impact the world around you.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life. And without freedom of choice there is no creativity. The body dies. In saving my life she conferred a value on it. It is a currency I do not know how to spend. The price of freedom is high. It always has been. A famous man once said, we create our own demons. You start running, they'll never let you stop. You stand up, push back. Can't say no forever, Right?

All lives end, all hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage. To feel unbearable pain from a great loss. It's okay. No, it's not. No, but it is what it is.

Life and Death:

Do we have to die? What comes next? Will it hurt? What if I don't want to live? Why is living so much harder than dying? What if I said I didn't want to die yet? That I wasn't ready? I guess I just thought that sooner or later I'd go out the same way that I live. Pedal to the metal and that'd be it. But now, I don't know. There are things... people... feelings that I want to experience differently than I have before, or maybe even for the first time. I'm just starting to think that maybe there's more to it all than I thought.

But a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. So, live in the moment and make every day count because no amount of money ever bought a second of time. It's not about how much we lost; it's about how much we have left. Carry on my wayward son, there'll be peace when you are done. Taking your own life. Interesting expression. Taking it from who? Once it's over, it's not you who'll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everybody. Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it. But to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Faith:

What does faith mean? Why do we thirst for it? You never know. You hope for the best and make do with what you get. For as long as I can remember, I just wanted to do what was right. Faith is my sword. Truth is my shield. Knowledge is my armor. Life's true gift is the capacity to enjoy enjoyment. There is seemingly nothing but chaos, not all bad comes from it. Art, hope, love dreams. Keep grinding. No matter how much it hurts, no matter how hard it gets, you gotta keep grinding. And that's how we're gonna win.

I know what you're doing what you believe in and that's all any of us can do. That's all any of us should. Am I doing the right thing? Am I on the right path? Now I realize that there is no righteous path, it's just people trying to do their best in a world where it is far too easy to do your worst. You know, who cares where happiness comes from. Look, we're all a little weird, we're all a little wacky, some more than others, but if it works, it works.

But you know happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the lights. It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

Faking it:

When does faking it become the real emotion? You send all this time trying to be your father, now you're wondering just what if means to be you. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. You took the jump; you didn't know where you were gonna come down. And that's it. Those little baby steps you gotta take. To try and become whole again.

Actually, I am quite deficient in some basic human information. What is there to fake? I guess if you're gonna have faith, you can't just have it when the miracles happen, you have to have it when they don't. Most of these people didn't want to be alive. Some people move on. But not us. Decide to be fine until the end of the week. Make yourself smile because you're alive. And that's your job. Then do it again the next week. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. You sort of start thinking anything is possible if you've got enough nerve.

Taking chances:

Change is scary, but so is living the same day over and over. You don't have to be ruled by faith. You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But there's no such thing as the known-only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood. Things are only impossible until there not, I dare you to do better.

I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference. Seize the time...Live now1 Make not always the most precious time. Now will never come again. There's always a change of getting hurt. And tomorrow I could get hit by a bus. That's what life is.

Don't do anything I would do, and definitely don't do anything I wouldn't do. What does that even mean? To take a chance or not, to do something incredible or not.

Uncontainable:

Music can change the world. For me, poetry is the music of being human. And a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become. Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring. You see, but you do not observe. My people skills are rusty. Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, today I will be brilliant. Sam taught me to give a damn. Dean taught me that it's okay to be seen, Castiel taught me you can survive even if you're not doing well. So, I will carry on even after they are gone. There must be something comforting about the number three. People always give up after three. You know this world, this sad, doomed little world it needs you. It needs every last Winchester it can get, and I won't let you die, I won't let any of you die. Don't make people into heroes. Heroes don't exist and if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.