Come Home, But I Say No
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Come Home, But I Say No

I say no to coming home.

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Come Home, But I Say No
Kayla Whitcher

Come home they say, but I can't; coming home means I have failed, coming home means that I no longer want to try. I do want to try, I haven't failed. Come home they repeat it will be easier. Yes it might be easier, but isn't that me just giving up? Going home means I have stopped trying I have given up on not only my dreams, but my future as well and is that who I am someone who just gives up? No, I am someone who doesn't just give up I push myself to become a person I want to be. When the world whispers just go home, I say no I keep pushing. Isn't that what we are all just doing pushing our selves to the point where we think we are the best we can be and even after we think we hit the best version of our selfs we keep pushing. Come home they say it will all work out, no coming home means that you refuse to go on with this thing called life, that you let life get you so down much that you take the easy way out and go home like they tell you to. Thats not me, life will throw everything at me and I will not take the easy way out for that is for the weak and I am not weak. I am stronger then I ever imaged and can take this things called life and push back against it. I will not go home and take the easy way out, I am stronger then that, you are stronger then that. You might not know it, but you are stronger now then life thought possible. Life has nothing on you and this world we live in is going to push you down the real strength is when you make the choice to get back up and push back. Going home is not the answer, home means that you have put in the towel which you haven't. Come Home they say, what happens if I do, what happens then? I stop living the dream I had for my self, I stop caring about the future that I wanted, I stop living. So come home they say ad\nd whisper into my ear I say no. I won't be coming home.

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