Take a selfie

Take, take, take all you want,
Bite, bite, bite all you can chew,
Be, be, be all you can be,
But first and foremost, take a selfie.

Take a selfie;

Take a selfie of your life,

of your past and present,

and of the future you desire.

Take a selfie of your ambition to succeed,

and of your fear to fail.

Take a selfie of your highs,

and of your lows,

your YESs and your NOs.

Take a selfie of your has-been,

and of your could-have-beens,

of your accomplishments and your regrets.

Take a selfie of your perfect imperfections,

and of your imperfect perfections.

Take a selfie when you are in the moment,

and when you snap out of it,

in your zone and out of it.

Take a selfie.

It is not until we take a selfie that we realize,

how beautiful an ugly can be,

how pretty disgusting can be,

how adorable despicable can be,

how amazing boring can get,

how extrospective introspection can get.

They say: "You never know until you try"

and I'm sure you'll never fully spread your wings until you fly.

Take a selfie and fly,

take a selfie and touch the sky.

You are your own drive,

your own ambition. 

The further you can see, the closer you will get there.

You are your own vision.

You design your destiny. 

You will know how to build it by knowing who you are.

Go stand in front of a mirror and, wait for it,

take a selfie.

Take a selfie at your weakest point and you will determine your strongest.

Take a selfie at your lowest point and you will rise to the highest.

A selfie a day keeps the doctor away,

the doctor that would remind you how much you hate yourself,

the doctor who will prescribe doses of insecurities on insecurities,

the doctor who will show your bad side to the world,

the doctor who will wreck your self esteem to fix something else,

not broken.

I repeat, you are your own doctor.

Treat yourself to a selfie,

examine your life in this sense,

broaden your knowledge,

and cure your issues,

cry if you have to,

and while at it, take a selfie with the tissues.

Healing comes from within,

if only we'd look back, pose, smile,

and take a selfie.

I'll wind this up with this corrupted new saying,

"When life gives you lemons, take a selfie;

then make lemonade and take a selfie, another selfie"