Chapter 1

A Chapter by Caitlin

Ramblings

Beautiful things are hard to find, especially when you’re looking for them. I’m 17 years old, I've got my whole life ahead of me and a whole world to see, yet I feel like I've seen enough. I've seen heartbreak split people into two, death make people question their will to keep on living, divorces that end childhoods and failures which completely and utterly wreck lives. Reality is cynical, people are cynical. Everyone is so preoccupied telling people what they can’t do instead of what they can do. People will laugh at your hopes and people will laugh at your ambitions. I believe that your childhood ends when you start to become realistic and cynical. People envy those who chose to ‘never grow up’ because they’re the only people that actually realise what life is about. The ‘realists’ spend their whole life, stuck in offices, pleasing other people, earning a salary which they think they will please them. So what if you want to spend your life working in bars, partying and wanting to travel the world. Good for them, at least they’re spending their life doing what they want to do.