One thing I have noticed about life is that it is all about change: new opportunities and additional chances. Every day is new, even if the majority of the happenings are the same crap. But the fact is that we get opportunities to change, and if we fail it isn't that we don't have another chance per se, but rather we don't have the exact same circumstance.

For example, I may try to prove myself trustworthy to someone. Yet if I fail it doesn't mean I cannot prove it further, if anything it would mean that the circumstances have changed somewhat. There is always a chance to do anything, including proving myself trustworthy.

However, death is the opposite. There is nothing that changes, it is simply unmoving and dreary. There are no additonal opportunities or chances, therefore the circumstance will always be the same. One is stuck in that spot forevermore, without hope and without change. That is depressing.

So, if you are alive, you have a chance to do something. To change something. To feel new is all in your head; change is every passing second. If you are alive, you have hope and a possibility to make things right. If you are dead, then why are you reading this?

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Upon this reflection, I recognize that all those emo kids are committing the fallacy of affirming the consequent. "I suck! I don't have hope, therefore I am dead!!!" ...Losers.