Minutes turn into hours, hours turn into days, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months and months turn into years.
Before you know it, your life has flown past and you realize you have so much left to accomplish and more living left to do. We in general focus on the small stuff when it really means nothing. When’s the last time you stopped to see an old friend, tell your partner you love him or even taken the time to go to a museum or see a good movie? Many of us, including myself, get caught up finding it more important to go to a night-time hotspot rather then focusing on the things that really should matter to us.
At the end of the day, does it matter where we were seen and what we had on? Does it really matter what people we don’t care for really think of us? There are so many trivial things that we let have importance in our daily routine and it reminds me of someone I once knew.
There was a guy I knew who was my age, 23, who spent most of his time socializing and partying at every hotspot in town. One day he lost a person close to him and he was never the same. Though he learned from it and changed his ways, people thought he was changed person. Some say he changed for the better; some say he changed for the worse. However anyone felt about him - better or worse - he realized that the truly important thing is the appreciation of what few people he had in his life. Soon, by age 25, he became sick and died. People, including himself, thought he had years ahead of him to live life. There were so many things he failed to accomplish.
You never know what curve balls life has to throw at you. Sometimes it’s better to let the grudges and hard feelings go and give forgiveness when due and move on. Before it’s too late, do the things you have always wanted to. I can only hope you let yourself live like you were dying.
