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CTRL
Happiness and control go hand and hand
To be happy you have to have control
And having control lets you be happy
But, if you don’t have control, then are you unhappy
We all want control
But the the truth is
We can’t control everything
And as hard as it is for us to accept it
We try and fight it everyday
Which has us in our deepest fight yet
Fighting to be happy
People want to be able to smile without lying
Or to know that people are there for them
At times they need them most
But, these things result in things we can’t control
We can’t control what happens in life
If we are dealt a bad hand
We can’t change the cards we have
We can only shuffle them
We can’t control people changing on us
Telling our secrets
Falling out of love
All we can do is wish for the best
The teenage years are when we yearn for control
Because when things in our life start to spiral
There's not much we can do except be a bystander to our own lives
Not having control is everyone's biggest fear
Not being happy is everyone's biggest fight
Total control our biggest fantasy
It's our biggest dream that will never come true
There is no way we can have complete control
Which leads us to a long fight which we can’t win
My main question in life is
If you can’t have control
How can you be happy?
I’ve tried to be happy in friendships
Relationships
Drugs
And nothing seems to work
Then I realized my main sadness was with problems I couldn't control
So for you to be happy
You need to accept the things you can’t control
Control the things you can
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I am just a regular kid trying to make it big in Camden. I wrote this poem to show the emotions we all feel as we grow and try to take control of our lives.