If you were to die tomorrow, would you be happy with the life you lived? Would you be happy with the mark you left on the world? Would you be happy with what you did with your whole life and every day you lived? With the relationships you had? The last words you said to the people you love? Would you be happy with yourself?
These don’t ever seem to be questions that we stop and ask ourselves in between our busy lives. But really, what are we so busy doing all the time? Worrying, stressing out, going to school and working. Working to pay bills, to make money to live, making money to be happy. We have come to let money rule our world. We have come to let money be the purpose of our existence. When in reality no one was put on earth to just pay bills and die. Each and every one of us were put in this earth to LIVE, to leave our mark on the world. To go out and enjoy life. To find the beauty in every day, within the trees, the birds and sky.
Think back to when you were a little kid and you were amazed by everything. Every butterfly, every first snow flake, every flower, everything was so beautiful and fascinating. Yet when we all grew up those things we once loved became things we stopped noticing and hating. Because suddenly that beautiful snow flake wasn’t beautiful anymore, but yet a hassle. We get so wrapped up in life that we forget about the important things. The beauty that is within every day. We forget to be thankful for each and every day for the people we have in our lives, our families, friends and even people who have left our lives, because even though we don’t realize it every person who walks into our lives has made a mark on us. Every person has shaped us into who we are. We forget to be thankful for the people who hurt us, when in reality they helped you become stronger. We forget to stop and tell the people we love that we love them, that were proud of them, that life would suck without them. When we shouldn’t, because tomorrow is never promised and if you don’t say it now you may never have another chance. We need to learn to find the little things in life and fall in love with our lives again.
In the life of adulting we become so comfortable with doing the same thing every day like a routine. Get up, go work, come home, cook dinner, go to bed. It isn’t until something unexpected happens that you are forced to change. We forget in the realm of our busy lives to actually live and not just survive. The difference between living and surviving is that when your living life you are living with a purpose and never let anything hold you back from living every day to the fullest. Surviving in life is when you are doing the bare minimum to get by. You will continue to do the necessities to get through each day, no matter if you’re happy or not. In the day to day scramble of surviving of our lives, we’ve forgotten to actually live our lives, BE alive.
How do you live the hell out of your life and feel alive when adulthood has you by the throat? The truth is there is no way to get out of adulthood. But there is always time to change your life. Every day is a new day and what you make of it is up to you. If you’re not happy with your job, quit. If you’re not happy in your relationship, end it. There is no point of living a life you’re not 100% happy with. There is never a reason to not be happy, because you are the writer of your book. You can close a chapter anytime you want and begin a new one. It’s just up to you what you want to do with your life and how you want to live it.
There are so many possibilities, opportunities and things to see in the world and yet we have no idea, because were stuck in the same place all the times. Create a life that you are proud of and excited to share when you’re ready to part this world, whenever that will be. Live a life that when you look back on the memories they make you smile. A life with no regrets. Write a story worth telling, a best seller. You are the creator. Stop just surviving in life & actually live it. Find something, someone that makes you feel alive, and live the best life you could ever live.
The kind of life that if you were to die tomorrow you'd be happy with.
