I was gonna write this killer story about how I asked these people what they have taken from life. Five things that have made them who they are. Through it, I realized a greater story than what I had.

We are all one. No matter what we experience in life, it's all about what we take out of it. What is it we learned from that moment.

Through asking people I met throughout the day, people I surrounded myself with people I cherished and loved, what was it they took out of life. I realized that no matter the age... no matter the sex... no matter the skin tone... We all are the same. We all feel the same hurt. We all want to be treated and hope to be treated the same.

There's a reason for everything.

A chance you didn't take is a chance you missed.

Forgive people even when you hate them. Forgive them for your own heart and mind to be free of not because they deserve it.

Do what makes you happy. Not what makes your family happy.

Life's too short to hold grudges. Forgive & Forget.

Don't hold your tongue say what you feel.

People are buttholes.

Life isn't fair.

No matter the obstacles life gave us, we took something from that, that someone else took from an entirely different situation. Your background does not make you. Your skin does not make you. Your buddies thoughts don't make you. YOUR experiences do.

Let karma do its job.

Tomorrow is never promised so live every day like it's your last.

Life's easier when you're honest with everything.

Survive.

You can never make everyone happy. Especially if you aren't happy with yourself.

Not all friends are forever.

Life's a learning experience.

We judge so heavily on people for their life choices, the way the grew up. We judge them by the color of their skin, or maybe even the era they have or will grow up in. How does this make any of us TRULY different? Sure we make take small lessons in life different than others

Cold beer is better than hot beer.

Bulls will hurt you.

Get to the lunch line first or else you will get hot milk.

Eat the damn cake.

You won't find your spouse on Tinder.

Don't be scared to ride on top of the Jeep in Columbia.

If you can't remember it, it was a good night.

Those are the particulars. The details. The parts that decorate our souls. You can tell a beer joke, to the boy whose father was an alcoholic. You can't tell the girl who was raped, it was a good night bc she chose not to remember.

Family isn't always blood.

Be humble.

Life isn't fair.

Pick your battles.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Life's too short to not live it how you want.

Treat people how you wanna be treated.

They all came from the very ones who gave the particulars. Sounds like something you'd say yourself? Where you knocked around by your dad? Where you ever found overdosing, because you hit a rough patch? Your life issues don't make you. What you took from them does. We all hurt the same. So who am I to judge a harsher life than mine? Who are you to judge the girl, who just couldn't afford to keep up? Life is full of expericenes. Some things we go through isnt always so far from someone else.