Proof

We are plain until we decide not to be plain, expressionless until we decide to have expression, disinterested until we take interest, outside until we demand to be let in. Our lives are a series of decisions, the greatest and most important and most oft challenged the decision to live. One may live but not be alive- we must decide to be alive, demand from ourselves and from the world the right to have meaning. Meaning is not given, it is not an intangible sustance existing in the world to be discovered, it is created. Do you want to be real? To be approached and appreciated? Your right to that must be earned and defined, until then you are animal but not human. Place your hand in the box of fire and prove that you can take it out unscathed. Prove that you are worthy of life.