Defined Life

I have a great story to tell, it takes a little while, but I'll power down with the details for this drawing. Stay with me!

This was inspired by life itself. Beginning:

The little baby with a full head of long hair, not knowing what was happening around her, was brought into a bright home, with many relatives and many smiles. Those were the simplest times.

The toddler gets some awareness in her life. She starts piano and small art that is fun and creative, she also gets a sister. Things are looking up.

The child grows a love for different foods because of how they taste. She loves video games, but soon she gets these awful migraines that cause her to miss school and barely see the light of day for a week. In fear of that event recurring, her parents take away her video games till she's 10. She has no idea what's going on, so she waits for that time to play again. All the while she grows to love animals, certain colors, and swim competitively. Things change when she leaves her home state, moving far away for a reason she doesn't know, for her parents don't give the answer.

Time moves on, and the child grew. She was bullied and she missed her home. Another problem grew to nearly consume her. A habit that she thought she couldn't break. She started pulling her hair bit by bit. Growing bald in some places, and making her parents worry. They try discipline and rewards of all sorts, but it still continues. It adds on to the hardships, but the girl continues with hope that she can understand the world and the things happening to her better. Parents split and the child moves on to a different school, a bigger school. At that school, she meets a friend who is dark as the night sky, but shines brighter than any star she had ever seen. The phoenix of the midnight sky. Interests are matched, and the girl finds some friends that she could call her own.

Two years pass, and the preteen still has her hair problem, but is finding a great love in writing and art. Around the time she thought she could be experiencing her first love, she dislocated her knee during physical ed. While recovering, she found great joy in watching her favorite tv show (DP). When her leg fully healed, the finale had come. That show soon disappeared from the air. Heading to highschool, she also broke her foot on Thanksgiving, leaving her left side of her body with all sorts of problems. Still she cried and tried to understand what was happening.

Over time, things healed, the girl, now a teenager, has found a place to be expressive. Instead of wondering about what she was doing, she was taking charge of her life little by little. She was able to drive, her hair pulling dwindled, her love in art burst into colors, and better choices for herself were made.

Things aren't over for her, and they never will be. But as she looks on into what her life will become, she realizes that through every little piece of her heart was broken, it was healed on stronger. Things will grow brighter, and she can choose to let everything that had happened hold her back: the loneliness, the aches, and the injury. Or she can choose to embrace everything she has been given to share the wonderful view of a life with everyone.

The point of this is, don't ever forget the years before, the smiles and laughter, the things that make you, you. It's a wonderful gift, and it's a lifelong treasure that each individual will have, whether it's good or bad. It's not only just about looking at your life as the world see's it, it's about your wonderful character as an individual. Most things always fall back to that one category, everyone knows that it conquers all, and shows us what we all have in us no matter what past experience: Love