I like the idea of karma, this notion that one day the person who wronged you will get back what they put into the universe. I find the entire concept fitting because even though we say we don’t wish bad things on others, we do. We all want to be good people, but when someone does something to hurt us intentionally, we immediately want karma to come around the corner and bite them in the booty.

Unfortunately, karma doesn’t work that way.

But, the idea of the universe giving back to you what you put in it, is an interesting idea. Like forget karma, just think about all of things you’ve done, good and bad. And then you think about how your life is a constant roller coaster, I mean, it makes sense.

We go through these phases of good where everything we do is a selfless act or we’re more nurturing, or we simply do things for people because we care about them. Then some random act of evil attacks and we are shoved off our path of righteous into the jungle of wrong. We lose that light that we had, and instead of putting positivity into the universe, we’re covering our light with feces of all kinds.

Hence, the roller coaster. Things will be good for awhile, (the universe giving back all of your good that you emitted) and then hell strikes and all of your tweets are back to back bitching about how crappy your life has become.

I don’t think that there is an end to the cyclical nature of your good and bad, because there is nothing you can do to prevent others from somehow shoving you off your angelic and well-lit path, into this jungle of chaos. I do believe that there is a way to deal with it more effectively than going on a Twitter rant/reposting on Tumblr/updating your status on Facebook: just ride it out and stay positive.

Our lives can’t always be perfect and happy, we don’t learn more about ourselves through that. You learn the most about yourself and who you want to be when you’re going through difficult times, when you’re struggling, or when you’re trying to figure something out.

For some reason, we have this idea in our heads and in our society that everything is just supposed to be good 100 percent of the time. That’s simply not the case. You’re not going to always be okay, you’re not always going to do your best, you’re not always going to react the way others want you to.

We are human. We have not yet achieved the ability to be perfect, and hopefully we never will because all of our screw-ups and our trials make great stories. They allow us to not make those same mistakes, but make new ones that continue our journey of growth.

Your life shouldn’t be about pleasing someone else—regardless of who it is. Your life should be about discovery, it should be about creating new experiences that shape your future and shape the person you are soon to become.

Life is about more than education—because to me, without experiences your education means nothing. I didn’t begin learning more about myself until I was kicked out of the house, until I had to do things on my own for real.

That whole saying that "our lives are meaningless unless we give them meaning," is crap.

Your life has meaning as long as you believe it does, until you give up believing in yourself and you have a purpose. Whether you know it yet or not isn’t important, the simple fact of the matter is, your life isn’t meaningless because every action you take sets off a reaction and every person you meet is in someway affected by you.

We are not meaningless, we are sparks waiting for the universe to ignite us.