Quoted straight from my mother's mouth after she had just dyed the ends of her hair pink, "You either live it up or burn it up and be free."

The more I thought about it the more it was true, and not just true about your hair. True about our lives. Sometimes we get in our own heads and make ourselves feel down and miserable or we let other things come into our life and overwhelm us like jobs, school, money and many other things the list is endless. In reality, our lives are not supposed to be miserable or stressful, we are supposed to live it up. So instead of just living our lives up and trying to carry all these burdens around why don't we burn it up and be free. Let go of all the things that hold us back from being us all the things that have chains and are locked to us.

Once we learn to let go of the mess in our lives and focus on the things that really matter then we can truly be free and live it up. I know for me it wasn't easy, my grandpa passed back in April and at first I had a hard time believing it was actually real. I would go and visit my grandma and think he would come and answer the door at any moment smile and hug me and we would have our good 'ole talks together. But when he didn't, I realized he was gone and started feeling sad and down in the dumps.

A few months went by and I began to see that he was actually gone, I had begun to accept it. I started to see that things were different but also that it was time for me to be me again. It was time for me to let go and be happy. But letting go didn't mean forgetting my grandpa because I could never do that, it meant me being free from sadness and all the other things I was feeling that kept holding me back from the happy things in my life.

I knew that my grandpa was in a better place happier than he had ever been and he would want me to continue to live my life to the fullest so I set myself free. Sometimes I still get sad and cry because I miss him, but I no longer dwell on it and keep myself down about it. So what are you gonna decide to do with your life, live it up or burn it up and be free?