If I only write as if I know the answers
If I only write the happy side
If I only write as if I have never made mistakes
then you will never know me.

But if I open up my life
To criticism
Beauty
Respect
Hate
Disbelief

then I will understand
the wisdom that time gives us

We don't understand ourselves
when we are young
We simply try things out
look for answers
sometimes in the wrong world
sometimes in the real world

But we emerge from these outings
These speculations of life
with new knowledge
and new beliefs

and become who we really are

I believe life is wonderful
We choose which side of wonderful we live in

and every day
we make a decision

Which side of Wonderful
today lives