Best Advice

I was sitting on the bus, listening to the loud hum of the vehicle and its passengers. Two women behind me complaining about their misbehaved children. "All they do is bicker and whine and talk back! They don't know how much I do for them and I am never enough for them." I remember the sadness that is welling inside of me and my eyes begin to fog with tears. I look out the window to choke it back and see a beautiful sunny day in perfectly broken Los Angeles. I turn to my best friend sitting next to me and we look into each others eyes, and i know she feels my pain, she feels my tears. She says," the most beautiful thing I've seen is your eyes when they cry" and I realized that the most exquisite emotion and experience is one that is both sad and real at the same time. Something that is so sad that it is so beautiful. Two different emotions intertwined to make one strong emotion. This idea is what inspires me and stimulates me to make art and live my life in an honest, raw way.