Life is a journey I’ve always told myself and although it feels like a long journey, it for sure is a very detailed and particular journey that everyone goes through in different ways. It has its specific stages like Love, Family, Friends, Faith, Coming of Age or in other words known as growing up and Grief. These topics not only sum up life but make life either worth living for or not worth living for but in my point of view I believe everything has a purpose as to why that stage is there at that specific time in your life. 

Love is there to bring you to life, to care for someone as much as your care for yourself, to feel their pain, to be there for them, to understand their feelings as much as your understand your own feelings and to have a bond with someone so special you don’t care about the rest of the world but just you and that person, now that’s the bright side of love but it can also hurt if it’s an impossible love that life just keeps putting obstacles in and you want to be together but can’t because of the challenges of life it can be hard or a love that shouldn’t be because even if you think you love each other, the love sometimes isn't enough so you hurt each other in the process. 

Another stage in life is Family is a very important one since it either can build you up or destroy you, depending on how your family is. Many people have a happy easygoing family in which they learn from and feel very much cared for, appreciated and loved so deeply they create an extremely strong bond for the rest of your life. Others may see family differently as a feeling of either abandonment, hatred, or resentment depending on how they have been treated by their family, since not everyone is lucky enough to obtain a happy and healthy relationship with their family. 

One big stage in life that is one that I believe everyone gets to choose are Friends it can be hard because building relationships with people that have different life stories than you is difficult. Since you don’t share the same perspectives about everything, but it can create a beautiful connection between two souls that need each other through hard times and happy times. 

Faith is I believe one of the most if not the most important stages in life. It is  that stage that creates who you are as a person what you want, your motivation, trust, hope, and ideology to be throughout your whole life to make you that person that you want to show the world, and what the world sees of you depending on what you believe in. Morals, values and religion all represented through your faith. 

Coming of Age or growing up is a stage everyone reaches in life where it explains the reason why you are the way you are as a person, since it all depends of that time in your life. It is a phase where you get to understand what life is all about, not to mention who you want the people surrounding you to be and what you want out of life. 

Lastly Grief is the hardest stage of life that many people sadly have to go through. It is a point where you understand how important your connection to either your friends or family are, since it is a moment where you question if life is worth living for because the person that you deeply cared about is gone. It is a stage that never goes away since the memory of that special someone never leaves you but you learn how to deal with only living with their memory. 

Even though life has its challenges and different little specific moments, I believe it is all beautiful in itself since we get to explore our emotions and to explore how different everyone’s point of view is about how to go on with the different stages of life. Although sometimes we may feel like life is forever at the end of the day it is a very short journey in which you cry, laugh, and overall feel different emotions meanwhile meeting new people with different perspectives, finding love, having your family by your side or not by your side, sometimes losing people and lastly creating a set of ideas as to what to believe in. I believe all these different stages make this journey worthwhile and overall extremely intriguing but beautiful in it’s own way.