Do you ever have days when you just sit and wonder why are you here? You aren't doing anything important at the moment? So are you just wasting space or is there something bigger and better out there for you? Lately, I have felt really hidden. I am not going to college, nor working a high paying job. Every day has been the same rotation of wake up go to my fast food job for eight or nine hours, come home and go to bed just to repeat the next day. Today I sat at a red light, unlike every other time I am stuck at a red light, this time it felt like time stood still. As I was looking around next to me I see a young mother with two babies in the backseat, I see an older man behind me in a brand spankin' new car, I see a car full of teenage kids blowing vapor out of the window of their friends beat up car. Just like that, I realized there is a purpose. There is a reason to be here. Whether it's being a mother to 2 beautiful children, having enough money to buy gorgeous cars, or just being a kid and having fun with your buddies. This moment of realization had opened my eyes and I really needed that. I needed something to remind me that we are all individual humans, and at some point, we will all be stuck at a "red light".

Being at a red light is just a temporary stop in going wherever your destination is. If you feel like you are at a temporary halt in life it doesn't mean that life is really over, it just means you are wasting your time at the red light, and when that time is up you will hit the gas and eventually reach where you are meant to go. I know, you might sit at home alone and tell yourself there is a reason you are alone because there has to be right? You can't help it, right? Nobody has texted you in months and it seems like nobody cares about what you're doing, or if you have even been doing anything at all. But looking around at that red light told me that I am not the only one. I am not alone in this world. With all the media being taken over by beautiful faces and amazing bodies and rich famous celebrities it is easy to forget to appreciate yourself. You go on Snapchat and see those people you graduated with partying with dozens of people, and you wonder what you are doing wrong. Why aren't you ever invited? But when you first get caught at this red light you don't wonder things like, do those people truly care about them the way my ONE friend cares about me?

Maybe instead of wondering why you don't have more friends you should appreciate the few you do have, because they would not know what to do without you. Just like you would be crushed without them. If you feel stuck at your dead end job think of the people who would like to have that job, and everyone working at a big company or doing something huge once started where you are, and had to sit there time at a red light. Your parents, whether together or not, good or bad, they came together and gave you this life. It is never ever too late to make the most out of it. You where given this life because you have the power inside of you to grab this life by the wheel and hit the gas and get it going somewhere. It could take days, months or even years but this red light will not last forever because even when it feels as if they do, the light eventually goes green. Then it is your time to be great. After all great things take time.