Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack in places. And I mean, yeah once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. Once it starts to rain inside the Osprey, it will never be remodeled. But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And its only that time that we see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. When did we see each other face to face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade, but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out. John Green
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Life is like an Osprey. Life can be tough, but it is also beautiful and interesting. The Osprey is a bird that depends on the ocean for survival. When its not in the ocean, it is very susceptible to all manner of dangers.

The Osprey uses fishing lines to catch its food and then it will eat and prepare for its next flight. It will tie the fishing line around a support and then hang itself from the support. This process can go on for hours until finally, after hours of effort, the Osprey has caught all of the fish that it needs to survive.

The Osprey will then fly off into the ocean in search of it next meal. The relationship between life and an Osprey are quite similar. You are much like an Osprey when you are an adult. You need to catch your next meal in order to survive just as an Osprey does when in flight in search of food.

However, when you are in your teenage years, you have yet to learn how to fish your own meal in order to survive. You need someone else to be there to catch it for you so that you do not fall prey to predators or bad weather conditions during flight. One day you may find yourself in the sky chasing birds around with your fishing line attached to you support pole by a rope. That person could be anyone at all including yourself because once the vessel cracks open, all of us are vulnerable birds struggling for survival in a stormy sky. I myself am not sure if this quote is true or not, but I still think it is worth sharing with everyone because I think everyone should live their life through their cracked open eyes rather than through their blinders.

Source: Paper Towns

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