Opening a New Door

In society, we are told to conform to the "norm" of today, but what even is that now?  Growing up, I've always had my different way of doing things.  When I was mad at someone, I'd write them a letter and send it in the mail.  When I liked someone, I'd write them a cute little note and slip it onto their desk at school.  Writing was and always will be my escape from this crazy world called reality.  So here, is where I'm going to actually start sharing some of them.  Why?  It's partially anonymous and the chances of one of my classmates from my small town actually seeing this is slim to none.  Also, there's power in sharing emotions no matter how brutal they can get.
I'm your basic teenager in college who's gone through breakups, lost family members, had tragedies happen.  But the thing that connects me to you is the fact that what you may be going through right now, I've gone through it too.  Often times, people belittle their emotions because they think no one else can ever feel that.  Well, guess what, we have.  In some way, shape, or form, we have all gone through similar things.
I'm merely here to write those emotions down. 
Because that's the beauty of writing things down.  When that pen hits the paper, those words become feelings and those feelings become real.  And that's when you know, you may not be okay.
So after writing my thoughts and feelings of that day, I'll share with you all a writing of some sort that could be new or old that is my own.  It could be long or short.  Some may go to a song; I'll put that in there too.  Most of them will rhyme, just forewarning you now.  But they're me.   
And this is me opening a new door.  To what, we do not yet know.

Confident and prepared,
     she left that little town.
Not caring if they stared,
     she was ready to take on the world.
With a dream in her head
     and a full tank of gas,
She left the letters on her bed
     and said her last goodbyes.

And she drove away, destination unknown.  Told mama she'd call,
when she found what she was looking for.  She left all she knew, her
husky too.  Still unsure why she had to go.  But the only way she 
would ever know for sure, is if she opened a new door.

At age nineteen she thought
     the world was hers to explore.
But she quickly found out it's not,
     it's more like truth or dare.
And no one plays by the rules
     every truth becomes a dare.
In the end we look like fools,
     and she began to cry.

And she drove away, destination unknown.  Told mama she'd call,
when she found what she was looking for.  She left all she knew, her
husky too.  Still unsure why she had to go.  But the only way she 
would ever know for sure, is if she opened a new door.

The dreams she had
     never felt more wrong.
Was she mad
     when she thought she could change the world?
She was only nineteen
     when she thought she knew
the world could never be cruel and mean
     until it closed another door.