Checklist

Supposedly, life is simple.

Go to school.

Get good grades.

Get a job.

Get Married.

Have kids.

What a load of nonsense.

Go to school.

Easy enough.

Get good grades.

I’m practically a genius.

Get a job.

Let’s talk about the pain and triviality of applying in this day and age.

Get married.

Let’s talk to the virgins on this topic.

Have kids.

Again, talk to the virgins.

Life is simple, NOT!

Life is difficult,

full of twists and turns.

People don’t understand that.

They say they do,

but they really don’t.

Fail to do something?

People question your worth.

Don’t have a job?

Get back to applying.

Not married?

You just haven’t met the right person yet.

What if you already applied to a thousand jobs?

What if you’re just shy and get nervous looking at those listings?

What if the right person never comes?

What if they’re dead?

Life is not simple,

it is hard.

People don’t care about your situation,

they just want to know what you do.

Life is a checklist,

a series of checkmarks,

and missing your checkmarks

is like not existing at all.