By GG, TIWP Student

Life is in the little moments. In the small things that make you human. Your fears, desires, mistakes, triumphs, and everything in between.

Life is deep, breathless, laughs when your friend tells you a story or a joke. In the moments where you’re sitting on their couch watching a movie, or talking about whatever comes to mind. It’s in the moments where they show up for you or you show up for them, or when they get you a candy bar or small gift just because they saw it and thought of you.

Life is the soul-wrecking sobs that shake your body at 2am. It’s in the moments where you feel your worst, or when you lose someone close to you. It’s in the days where you lay on your bed and eat an entire thing of ice cream, or the nights you can’t sleep because you can’t escape your head, or the days where nothing goes right.

Life is the smiles that make your face ache when you realize there’s been someone out there for you all along. It’s in the feeling you get every time you see them, or how freeing it is to tell them everything. In the quiet moments where you just hold each other, or when they show you they’ve been listening the whole time, or when they remember the little things.

Life is the heart piercing fear you get when confronting your nightmares. In the embarrassment that makes your face red when you make a mistake. It’s in the adrenaline filled jump scares or adventures you take.

Life is in everything you do. Everything that makes you who you are. Every craving, every boring class, every moment of peace. Life is in everything, you can never miss it, it can never pass you by, life is what you make it.