What is life really about?

Brilliant minds lost in the vortex of their

sadness. It strikes me every day as I see

more and more young Chicano's trying to 

figure out what life is really about.

I see eyes searching but never seeing,

ears intent on listening but hardly anyone

speaks to them. Millions of young brown

faces eager to learn yet so few teachers 
are found.

Young people, life is about happiness

and enjoying oneself and the most

important thing is the love you share with 

your loved ones. It’s about seeing the smile 

on a quinceañeras face and watching a baby

chewing on its hand.

It’s about seeing the smile on that special

persons face when you tell them you just

got a job and watching them beam with

pride when you get your first paycheck.

Life is about many such wonderful and

precious things such as good friends,

respect, love, and honor.

Life can be whatever you choose for it

to be. Just as keys are used to turn locks

so the choices you make in life are the 
keys to the happiness you seek.

Take a look at the alcoholic, drowning

in his self-made misery or the drug

addict who will steal from his own

mother if given half the chance.

The person who engages in unsafe sex

until they find out they have picked up

an incurable disease. And finally the

tough guy who followed “the wrong

crowd without thinking,” and now

spends all his time locked up away 

from his loved ones.

That is not life, it is death! Those who

want to achieve all the wonderful things

of life have to turn their backs on all the

“fake pleasures and fake people,” who

only seek to destroy ones happiness in

life!

If you take a look at the “real locos and

locas on the streets,” you will find that

just as fire can burn the flesh, uncontrolled

bad habits and bad choices can only destroy 
ones happiness!