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Jul 2013
People are so contradictory.
One person will tell me a piece of advice along the lines of "there will always be tomorrow".
Telling me to not worry about having wasted my day,
Apparently it doesn't matter that much if I sleep in until 12:27pm and have breakfast and lunch at the same time,
Or if I decide to re-watch a whole entire season in less than 10 hours.
"Don't worry, there's always tomorrow".
But what happens when someone else tells you to "live for today" because "there might not be a tomorrow".
Stop messing with my mind because I am young and I don't fully understand or appreciate the fact that I can do what I want and have no responsibilities
But what I want to do and what I feel like doing are two different things
I am young and I don't fully understand
If you tell me, "there's tomorrow" I won't do anything proactive
If you tell me, "live while you're young" I will probably do nothing as well
But the point is
You tell me both
So no wonder young people are so ******* confused and feel lonely all the time
It's because the ones who have supposedly gone through it all don't know what to say
And they went through this system 20 odd years ago and things have changed and progressed
And some things are harder now than they were at that time
But a lot of things are easier now and we are more free but people are more troublesome
So there's no wonder why teenagers are as respected as they used to be
So it turns out everyone is ******* up
No one knows what to say or how to behave or what to do anymore
No one did in the first place
This is Spoken Word
Melissa Nye
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Melissa Nye  London
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