There's so many things I want to do.
I want to see the world
I want to see new things
I want to meet different people
I want to speak their language
I want to wear their clothes
I want to see all the colours of the wind
I want to look up at the tall buildings
I want to see the taller trees
I want to sit under the shade of those trees
I want to observe the animals around them.
I want to talk to everyone I meet
I want to learn their names, their stories, talk to them not about them
I want walk the ancient streets of rome
and I want to marvel at their wonder
I want to be okay with myself
and more so be okay with others.
I want to give what I can, and be a good receiver
I want to love with all my heart, and someday lose that, to learn the lesson of loss.
I want to LEARN

And while I dream these dreams of the future, sitting in my rocking chair, typing on my fathers laptop, I look outside and I dream.
The dark, starry night is full of faces. Newborn children with their entire lives before them, beginning a new story. Women and men of all ages HIV positive with the chance to live for a year, without medication, and 5 years with it. I see women and men making their way, just crossing the boundaries of adulthood, nervous smiles on their faces. I see children living in poverty, wearing clothes too worn to be considered anything but rags, helping to care for siblings and parents as they know naught of education. I see mothers, pregnant with their children, smiling with their spouse and families, happy. I see homosexual teens being beaten down for being nothing but true to themselves.

And as I sit here, on my fathers laptop, watching satellite tv, in a comfy chair, food in my belly, thinking about school tomorrow, I realize I am priviledged.

I am a homosexual caucasian girl, nearing the end of my teenage years and the end of my highschool education. I live in the upper middle class, riverside property, full of hopes and dreams. I am a pianist and a guitarist. I am an artist, and a novelist. I can appreciate, criticize, empathize, love, lose, hate, and have all the oppourtunity in the world to fulfill my dreams.
I am a dreamer, a believer, and I create modern miracles with my smiles, I can cure depression with a wave, and I can save a life with a hello.
Something so simple as a smile, a wave, a hello, can make someones day, can give them something to stand higher for, something to live for.

Tomorrow I challenge you. Look at five people you don't know. Don't smile at them, smile past them.
No.
Smile to them. Show them you care, and save a life with your words.