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My Next life
<p>In My Next Life</p><p><br/></p><p>In my next life, I want to be a bird.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not the birds that live in the forest, though. They have enemies.</p><p><br/></p><p>I want to be the birds that live with humans.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then again, not the caged ones.</p><p><br/></p><p>I want to be the ones that eat from bins on the street. The ones that have a siesta on electric poles. The ones that build their nests behind air-conditioning vents.</p><p><br/></p><p>I want to be able to fly away at any discomfort.</p><p><br/></p><p>I want to walk away from my problems.</p><p><br/></p><p>I don’t want to have to stay in a place I don’t want to be.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yes, this life is filled with beautiful things.</p><p><br/></p><p>Christmas in London.</p><p><br/></p><p>Summer in the Maldives.</p><p><br/></p><p>Watching the sunset from your penthouse.</p><p><br/></p><p>But this life is also bad.</p><p><br/></p><p>You could step out for school and be raped.</p><p><br/></p><p>You could go to a university, and the lead pastor could assault you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Your parents could die before you’re fifteen.</p><p><br/></p><p>Your whole life could be built around a narcissistic person.</p><p><br/></p><p>And still, you can’t just fly away.</p><p><br/></p><p>You can’t just leave.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because if you leave, they call you suicidal.</p><p><br/></p><p>You can’t leave because you have someone you’re living for.</p><p><br/></p><p>So you stay.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because you want to.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because you’re happy.</p><p><br/></p><p>But because life keeps finding reasons for you to remain.</p><p><br/></p><p>I want to fly away.</p><p><br/></p><p>For real.</p><p><br/></p><p>I don’t want to be here anymore.</p>
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