Dare you to move

It's 1am and I'm listening to this switchfoot song. It's from A Walk to Remember and it's titled "Dare you to move". I've always liked this song. I understand and I appreciate the message of this song and I just thought I'd share it here.

Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
What happens next

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

Well, I think it's saying that life is shit. Sometimes, as optimistic as you want to be, there is just no other truth to it. Sometimes, life is just shit.

And I think that's alright. Because what matters is what you do about it. Yes, life is shit, you're going to fail, it's just bound to happen. If not for fate, it's bound to happen by statistic. No one is just going to breeze through life, it just doesn't work that way.

The point is, failing is inevitable. You're going to flunk an exam. You're going to get dumped. You're going to get fired. You're going to lose over and over and over again. Life is going to kick you so bad that you're going to want to stay down. It's going to take people from you. It's going to make you wish you've never been born. It's going to make you wish that you could just end your existence.

So fine, life is shit. Now what are you gonna do about it? That's the point of it all. What happens next? That, is the question. Just because life is fucked up, doesn't mean we all have to be fucked up.

So I dare you to move. I dare us all to get off our asses and do something about it. I dare us to do something great. I dare us to be a part of history. I dare us all to etch our names along with names that we look up to. I dare us to make a mark. I dare us to look within ourselves and look into the world with renewed vigor. I dare us to attack the world like today, our failings, never happened.

Everyone's graduating soon. For some reason, it's a different kind of atmosphere. You can taste the fear in the air. The uncertainty and the hesitation is ever-present. I remember when we were graduating from high school. We felt like we were going to take over the world. That's because deep down inside, we knew that we didn't have to yet. In those terms, our bravado was nothing more than a lie. But now, it's time to prove ourselves and I can feel everyone's reservations. We all know about the stories. We all know about the wasted potential. We all know of the people who were kings in high school or college. They were prodigies who looked like they were going to make millions and live happy and contented lives. You know these people. They are your friends. They are even your family. But like everyone, life dragged them down. It's a sick and sad world out there where dog eats dog.

So fine, life is shit. So I dare you to move. I dare me to move. I dare us to lift ourselves off the floor and be someone. If you want to be a leader, then be the best damn leader there ever was. If you want to be a businessman, then give it all you've got. If you want to find your true love, then never give up. If you want to live a happy life, then you've got to get up everytime you get dealt a bad hand.

It's time to be great, gentlemen.

So now, what happens next?