You have the choice to be happy

You have a right to live your life and be happy.

You're the only one who knows how to.

You have dreams, you have visions 

Come on out and start living life 

All you need is some peace while you are here

Just let go till you are home safe again, dear 

I had a dream when I was young, just like you 

I dreamt our lives were going to be found

I dreamt I knew what I wanted

When we were always waiting to live.

All you need is some peace while you are here

Just let go let it all happen, dear.

You have the choice to be happy 

You have the choice to change it all 

Or hear the sweet sound of your sweet voice,

That keeps telling you can't.

I know I've heard it. I heard it in my sleep.

That's why I'm where I am 

What's why I don't know who I am 

All you need is some peace while you are here

Just let go. Don't say no, dear.

Wake up each night at the same time.

Pull up the blind and look outside

And in the orange light the fog is rising.

This is life. The still night. Peace in the quiet.

Happiness is the sky.

Love is like life, no path is so clear, no step is easy.

     Amir was a 22 year old college guy who lived in London. He had deep beautiful blue eyes and a big beautiful white shiny smile that would melt any girl's heart. Amir was a member of a Saudi royal family. Everyone knew who they were, all over the world. Amir's family was his whole life, and he was theirs. They were one of those crazy family's who would always be together and would never lie to one another. Except there one this one secret Amir kept from everyone; he was in love with a Jewish girl. A beautiful girl named Ariel Ariel had beautiful hazel eyes and a long thick beautiful blond hair. She wasn't just like any other girl. She was a heart breaker, and so she stole Amir's heart and actually never gave it back. Ariel didn't come from a royal family, but a very religious family. It was very important for her mom that she marries a Jewish guy. 

     Amir and Ariel kept their relationship a secret for almost a year. They were  scared to tell their families anything at all because they didn't think that they would except it, after all he was an Arab, and she was Jewish. Their people back home were enemies, and so were their families. But they lived in London, far away from home and far away from the mean war.They wouldn't think that it's going to really matter, after all they moved to London to get away from all the evil mad war. They were in love, in London, and that was the July thing that actually mattered. So Ariel decided to take a risk, and bring Amir home for dinner and introduce him to her family. 

     Ariel's mom didn't approve Ariel and Amir's relationship, in fact, she asked him to leave the house. It broke their hearts. They never even thought of telling Amir's family after that happened and so they kept their relationship a secret,   again. They were too afraid to lose what they had, and that was one another. 

     When her mom told me to leave the house, all I wanted was for the ground to open up and swallow me. I was never this hurt in my life. I thought I had lost her forever. I thought she could give up on me and would listen to her mom. After all, she thinks she knows what's best for her. But I am what's best for her, that's at least what I had thought. We better just not tell my family anything at all. I can't lose her, I just can't. But yet I don't know if she's going to want to do this forever. Keep lying to her her mom, not being even able to meet my family. I want to be a normal happy couple and I know that that's what she wants too. I know that I will always want to be with her, no matter what. But I don't know if she would be to handle it too. 

      The next day was a cold rainy day. I would really sleep for the past two days so I could really watch the sunset last night and the blurry sunrise. I opened my window and the small of the wet grass and the worms took me back to childhood back home. I wish everything back there could be easier. I wish our families could just be fine with each other. After all, don't all they want is for us to be happy? Well we weren't happy. All of a sudden this crazy idea came to my mind. What if we just leave everything behind and move somewhere far away? Far away from everyone and everything; just the two of us alone. I left the house and headed to Ariel's house. When I got there I kept knocking on the doors for a really long time and no one was there. Her phone was off too. I didn't know what to think. "What if something happened? What if she's gone?" I decided to go to the tree we always used to go to when we wanted to be away from the town and everyone in it. I just needed some time alone, to think. 

     When I got to the tree I found a letter form Ariel. I opened it as soon as I saw it. 

Dear Amir,

I don't even know where to start telling you what I have to say. The last thing I've ever wanted to do was to break your heart. My mom decided to leave London and go somewhere really far away from here to "fix me" she took our relationship very seriously. She wouldn't even listen to me when I tried talking to her. She let me write this last letter for you and drove me to out tree. I knew you'd come here and find it. I'm so sorry I had to out you through this, but trust me I don't feel any better. I really hope that one day I'll see you again and everything will be just the way it was, only even better. Without the war, just with peace and love. 

Love you forever 

Ariel 

I haven't ever seen Ariel again. Like she said, well be together when the war will end. But the war never ended, and it probably never will. I stopped being so optimistic about it after I lost Ariel. I was never in a relationship after that. I knew the no other girl would be as important to me as Ariel was. I knew I will never be able to love any other girl as much as I loved Ariel. Yet, I was thankful, for all the memories we had together. 

The Key

          In the summer of  2012, along the beach of Fort Myers, Florida, a deeply imperfect girl was taking a walk along the beach. She was trying to figure out who she was, and what she wanted from herself, from life. She had been alive for 18 years already and still could not understand the meaning of life, the meaning of existence. All she ever wanted was to have the freedom of knowing  what exactly brought her here and the reason for it.  Looking at the dark ocean reminded her of her own soul, dark and invisible.

         The girl suddenly noticed something shiny along the side of the beach. It was so shiny and beautiful she felt like it literally was screaming her name telling her to come take a look. She slowly came closer, and closer to the mysteries light. She was scared but at the same time knew that this might be her chance. It could be the light in the end of the tunnel, that's going to save her and lead her to true freedom and happiness. 

         As she got closer to the mysterious light, she found out that it was a key, a golden beautiful key. As she lifted it from the ground, she felt a strong wave of energy all around her body and soul. Suddenly the sun came out, the birds started singing, the dolphins were jumping higher than ever before, from the bottom of the ocean. Finally, she felt happiness and perfection. The key opened her eyes to the positive and brighter side of life. She loved her key but knew that it didn't belong to her. She knew that maybe there was another girl out there on the other side of the earth who was as sad as she was and needed to have the key for true happiness. Just like that, she threw the key as far as she could. Until there is another girl out there, it's going to wait for her, on the bottom of the ocean.