Part of your World By Lani Courteaux

Ever since I was a little girl, I've always loved Ariel, the little mermaid.

How she wanted to be a part of a world that had more to offer.

Just wondering free as a person without expectations.

Ariel was granted happiness after her father saw how unhappy she was.

Live among the humans as one while still being able to visit the kingdom.

After all she was a princess.

That maybe we aren't so different, me and you.

We're fortunate to have experienced it all.

Unfortunate for bad experiences as well.

Like a chameleon, you adapt by learning and surviving.

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.

While you could be going through hard days, other's can show you a better days are ahead.

That just because the waves crash against the rocks dissolving, this too shall pass.

Those dark clouds will turn bright again with a rainbow beyond the horizon.

It's a part of your world.

When's it my turn, when will I learn?

Though her father had seven beautiful daughters, he was tougher on Ariel.

She didn't like living by expectations.

Even fought hard towards her own father by using a voice to be heard.

If you live with expectations, are you truly living for yourself?

Start by simply living life the way you want.

How can you truly experience life staying in someone's shadow?

Even if you want what's best for them, it's time to be released at some point to swim or sink.

Your still gonna be loved, thought of, and cared for.

Just pull the reigns back a little so you give them room to breathe.

It's a part of your world.

Poor Unfortunate souls.

When everything seems to be going good, other's are set to see you fail.

They will do anything to succeed watching your shells fall one by one.

If you want something bad enough, rise to the challenge by facing it head on.

Letting them win is your demise.

Go for what you believe in because if you believe in yourself, someone believes in you.

Be the reason they put hope in you.

It's a part of your world.

You don't say a word, not a single word.

Ya know you're gonna kiss the girl or guy.

Relationships come and go.

You'll end up in random hook-ups.

A friend with benefits, becoming more for one person when it was a mutual agreement of no promises.

A broken heart or two before finding Mr. or Mrs. Right.

If the love can surpass every tribulations and hindrance stopping you from the finish line...it's a real love that's meant to be.

Though some love has no Happily ever after due to consequences of your betrayal, that's the way love goes.

Sometimes love offers no second chance if you took them for granted.

Someone is gonna love you the way everyone else couldn't.

It's a part of your world.

Up where they walk, where they talk.

To be part of that world.

It could mean anything for how you interpret it.

Maybe a disability that creates a barrier making it harder to interact with others.

Someone who's shy that doesn't have charisma like a confident person.

A son/daughter who want a real family, not something temporary all the time.

That's where the sea becomes calm,knowingly once you learn Tolerance, Open-minded, respect, and acceptance.

It's a part of your world. This beautiful world rather you live in the sea. Or on the land. We're really not that different after all. Just trying to make it out here by...

Adapting.

Learning.

Surviving.