Life. Who could have picked it. We are born with no road map, no site map planning our journey. No rules, no general direction in which to head. Sure we go to school, we learn to read and write, we get a job, we get a boyfriend, we experience heartbreak, we have sex, we laugh, we cry. We makes excuses for all the things we should do but we don't. We go through phases where some things become more important than others. We make friends, we lose friends.
But when do we really live? I mean REALLY live - those moments in you life where your heart skips a beat, you lose your breath for one second, you raise your heart rate til you think its going to burst right out of your chest.
I walked away from my text book life because I wasn't living. I was existing. But now I'm on my own. There are many sleepless nights, many lonely moments, many times where you ask yourself how much longer can I exist like this.
And then you have that moment - the one where your breath is taken away; only for a second. And you hold that memory, that thought, that feeling, and you cherish it. And you think of it when you're sad, when you're happy, when you're not thinking at all.
I don't believe we can make anything last a lifetime (except our existence) so I believe now in making the memory last a lifetime. Every moment - every conscious thought - should be lived with such intensity that it can carry you through the hard times, the lonely times, the times where you feel that existence just isn't worth it anymore.
Live every day with a little hope. Make your existence a life. Don't rely on fate or friends or astrological alignments to tell you whether you are going to have a good day, week, month. Take some control and find those moments, seek them out and enjoy the journey.
Travel the world - we isolate our minds so much by experiencing so little. Don't go to another country and sit in a pool drinking all day (while that sounds like great fun, don't get me wrong) it is those lessons, that cultural experience that makes us so much richer in our lives, and makes our hearts and minds so much more enlightened.
Meet new people - yeah, yeah I know - easier said than done, but consider what it means - they are not necessarily going to be a lifelong friend (but make that memory last a lifetime). Meet a new person every week. Take one lesson in life from them. Become a better person because of every individual you meet.
Don't settle. Never settle. Once you settle you will compromise every action, every decision, every moment that you could have experienced the best moments of your life. Settling is our western society's way of making sure you keep our economy thriving with gas bills, and mortgages, and cereal and nappies. Society tells you to get married, get a job, have kids, retire in a condo with lawn bowl competitions every week. That sounds like a lemon to me. Oh yeah, I like lemons, but what else ya got?
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