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Being Alive Is More Than Living

Why "Alive" should be everybody's anthem.

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Being Alive Is More Than Living
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We all remember Sia. As she was hanging from the Chandelier in 2014, we were calling everyone we knew, Bae. And now, in 2016, though we're still (unfortunately) calling people Bae, Sia has blessed us with an amazing new song called "Alive."

Introduced to me by my boyfriend, who forced me to listen to it because I would buy it in a couple of months anyway, this is now my favorite song. The words are riveting, and for whatever reason, I grasp onto them.

Originally written for Adele, Sia picked up the song. And though it was written "about Adele's life, and from Adele's perspective," man am I glad she did. This song speaks to me on a spiritual level but, as with all songs, it depends on who you are as to how you interpret it.

For me, the song resonates the idea that no matter what you go through in your life, you can always overcome it. We always hear about people saying that they can't come back from a certain event, but in reality we all know that they can. The world doesn't give us anything that we can't handle, even if it means spending a while working on the issue.

Many of the lines in "Alive" are "I survived," "I'm still breathing" and "I'm alive," or some variation of these phrases. According to the words of Sia, you can get through this! You can get through any problem that you encounter, which I feel is something that needs to be repeated over and over again to so many people.

In the US, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death and accounts for 43,000 deaths per year. That's an average of 117 suicides per day—per day.

I don't know about you, but I am 1000 percent not OK with this number. Most people who commit (or attempt to commit) suicide do so because they feel that life has beat them. They feel that they cannot overcome the hurdles in their path, whether it be a high school student being consistently bullied day in and day out, a spouse being unfaithful or any other traumatic event.

Although just a song, I think that by spreading "Alive" to every corner of our country, or even the world, we could help to comfort those who feel that they have no other choice.

No one should have to feel that the only way they can go on is by not...

"I knew what I wanted, I went in and got it. Did all the things that you said that I wouldn't."

These two lines in particular prove to me that there is hope for people out there. Nobody wants to die, they just don't know how to live. You have to know what you want and go get it; you have to stay alive, and do everything that no one thinks you can do.

There is hope, and people love you.

And if somebody tells you that you can't do something that they can, you go out there and do it ten times better.

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