A Life Or Survival?

We were so carefree

When we were younger

Weren't we?

We were kids who played with toys

Before we even spoke and then,

Grew up older to play with friends,

We were teenagers

Who kept daydreaming all the time

And then,

Grew up to be young adults

Dreaming about our ambitions and life,

We grew in every phase of our lives

Trying to make most out of it,

Live like we were never going perish,

Love like it never ends,

We enjoyed each moment of it back then,

Only to realize

We were now living with them,

Taking care of responsibilities

That we never had to deal with before,

Trying to make a living so that

We and our loved ones can survive,

We deal with reality now

Like it's a wake-up call every moment,

Get busier day by day

Like there's no time left,

Keeping missing our friends

Whom we hadn't seen in a while,

A lot has changed

When we look back in the past,

Things are not like they used to anymore,

We have changed so much

That we can't recognize ourselves

Who we were in those times,

There are a lot more surprises left

In our lives to see,

A lot more phases left

Where we need to unwind,

But there is always that one question

That's deep within our souls,

Are we happy about what we experience?

Or, are we just surviving with it

To somehow call it a lifetime?