Life is like a... garbage bin?
Nival Vixen

I thought of this as I looked at the poor state of a garbage bin while waiting for the bus... I wrote it on the bus and decided to post it... Enjoy!

You start out clean and innocent. You look nice and are ready for whatever the world will give you. You don't have a care in the world.

Then people come along and start to use you. They fill you with loads of rubbish; overflowing you with their own garbage - words, thoughts, and careless actions.

Very few people will respect you and even less will think of you as something special or worthwhile. Some people will hurt and damage you. Others will label you with meaningless words in bright colours for the rest of the world to stereotype you...

Every so often a person will care. They will empty you of the others rubbish, leaving you with a new outlook on the world until you are, again, filled with rubbish from those around you.

They damage you again; kicking, labelling and setting you on fire until you can't take any more of it and break down. By the time someone realises that something is wrong, what was left of you from the start is gone; the clean, innocent and naive you is lost forever.

Sometimes there are people that don't care about you at all, yet they still manage to empty you. Once they have gone, you feel empty, drained and worthless and you can't even bring yourself to care as you're yet again, filled with rubbish.

When you are too old to be used by the people around you anymore, another one comes along, starting out the same way you did: innocent, clean and completely naive. You try to give them words of wisdom; to warn them about what the world is really like, but they are too young and innocent to understand what you mean...

You are discarded; the few who cared are gone forever and no one is left to remember, but you...

All you can do is wait for your own end; alone and remembering the people that cared for you and not the ones that filled you with rubbish...

The end.

Please tell me what you thought of it!