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Life becomes meaningless unless...
#WritcoStoryPrompt102
#TheMeaningofLife #writcostory
This is my narrative on the "Life becomes meaningless unless" prompt. Hope you enjoy! 🙂

When we are still in our childhoods we view the world through an unbiased lens that becomes clouded and darkened as we grow older and experience hardships and see many of life's unfortunate realities. It is as if these negative aspects of life form some sort of veil that gradually envelops our senses of perception and how we view the world around us. Ever notice that as a child, the world as we see it has this limitless, anything is possible, magical feel to it? They say the sky is the limit, but even for some it doesn't stop there. I guess when we are still children, in all of our innocence, we only see the beauty in the world as we attempt to make sense of it with awelike wonder. Once we begin to experience pain and heartache, the dark aspects of life, I assume that those darker parts (being void of light) start obstructing our individual lenses of how life is viewed. Then you have the societal conceptualizations also weighing down our outlooks on life and further confining views and beliefs . Telling us anything taboo is bad, that one religion is correct and another is a sin, being judged upon ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender categorizing, economical statuses, etc. You have cliques in social settings who pressure adolescents into being, looking, and acting in specific artificial ways. You have poverty level communities who drift into crime, drug addictions and illegal behaviors which gift them with stereotypical judgements being splat at them. The majority of society not even looking into the stats of these communities and seeing the similarities and common themed factors that make up those individuals...