Birds and Butterflies.

I like birds. I like birds because they represent the ultimate freedom. They can fly. Imagine being able to just fly away. Whenever you want, where ever you want. If I had wings then gravity would never have to remind me that it exists. I would never have to fall to the ground smashing face first on the floor. I would never have to pick myself up and try again. But we aren’t birds; we can’t fly, probably because we wouldn’t know what to do with that kind of freedom. We would use it and abuse it and take advantage of flying instead of fighting. Gravity happens and we don’t have wings strapped to our shoes. We fall. We hurt. But we get back up or I think that we should because when we fight and when we stand and when we try we find pride and beauty. Yeah gravity, it’ll happen again, but we already know that. Then the pride and the beauty of standing allows us to push ourselves back up and keep on going. Sometimes standing hurts worse than falling down but standing is always better than staying on the ground. You’ll find beauty in standing even if it seems to be taking forever, eventually standing will be easy. So when you find yourself on the ground try telling yourself that beauty is waiting when you finally stand. The caged bird still sings right?

I like butterflies. I like butterflies because they give me perspective on change. “Without change, there would be no butterflies.” So when change happens, I try to think of how beautiful a butterfly is. Whether I’m embracing the change or just accepting it. It’s still the only thing that allows us to see the beauty of a butterfly. You know that whenever a butterfly finally comes out of its cocoon it only lives for like 9 months at the most. Some only live for about a week. Maybe this is a reminder that all beautiful things are temporary in a sense that nothing beautiful can last forever. Sometimes we are trapped inside of a cocoon, growing, learning, maturing, with nowhere to go and no way out. Stuck. But in good time, there will be beauty and freedom. But also, in time that will end as well and the process will just keep repeating itself. Repeating itself. I think butterflies are beautiful. They show us that change is ever changing. So when you find yourself trapped and stuck try telling yourself that beauty is waiting when you are finally free.

Life is life. We don’t always need a metaphor to explain things or to try to make sense of something. Shit sometimes we can’t even explain it or make sense of it. It just is what it is. Life is life. I like simple just because I hate complicated. I like living up to expectations because no one wants to be over-rated. I like truth because I don’t wanna hear any lies. I always wanna see you smile but that doesn’t mean you aren’t still beautiful when you cry. I like pretty flowers even though they die… “just a subtle reminder that nothing’s designed to survive.” I like highs but I know that at some point they have to be balanced out with lows. Just the way life goes. I hate losing more than I like to win. I like now because it’s better than where I’ve been. We all say we’re different but secretly we long to fit in. I’m ok on my own but I hate sleeping alone. I prefer right but I can’t deny that sometimes it feels good to be wrong. I like music because there is power in a song. I like to sleep because I love to dream and love, well; it doesn’t need a rhyme or a reason to be.

Thank you for spending your time with me and my words. Just so you know it means more than you know.

This is Jason Reeves-Song for a waitress. Beautiful.