High on Life

If a normal life were a three book trilogy
My life would be a fan-fiction written by somebody who has only seen the movies
It never seems to go the way it should
but it don't matter
we just do what we do

I feel like sometimes we get caught up comparing our life experience to others
but it really doesn't make much sense
everybody has life experience
just because our experience is different doesn't make it less valuable
no matter how hard that is to believe at times

but
nobody says it better than Nas

"life's a bitch and then you die
that's why we get high
cause you never know when you're gonna go"

to me
I get that high from life by doing the things that I love
and last night was a great reminder of that
I drove up to the Earl Sweatshirt concert with two of my close friends
and it was one of the days where no matter what seemed to go wrong
everything felt right
it was an outdoor show and rained the entire time
the audience wasn't huge but
everybody moved as if we were one body
the air was hazy
half from the steam rising from rained-on jackets
and half from the cigarette smoke
we're all different people
but we come together for something we love

Life is never going to be consistently good or bad
but when we have chances for the highs and life
we make the best of them

We all sang along to Frank Ocean's Channel Orange album on the way home
We sang the words wrong sometimes
but we sang anyway
the album had never sounded better