Thursday, February 5, 2015

The Only Opportunity We Know

As a living human being, we have been given a beautiful opportunity to live. I do not know why we have been given this opportunity. I do not know if we were created or evolved. I simply know that I am here. I exist right now.

I was born a human to [insert names], on planet Earth, in the country known as Australia, in 1985AD.

I do not know if I will ever be given this opportunity again.

If there is something I want to do, it is better to do it now, unless there is a good reason to wait or not to do it.

Time is very brief. I don't know when the music stops. Time is always ticking. I am humble in the knowledge that my life as well as all life on this planet is finite. My time is the most important resource I have because it is finite, whereas something like money is infinite. My life is always ticking closer to the end.

One day the door will close on my life. Nothing I can do will ever bring back time, no matter how hard I try.

Knowing this, I resolve to not over sleep. Live each day to the maximum. Live with a sense of resolve. I only have a brief time on this planet. Life is too short for hate. Life is too short for negativity.

Now is the time to live. I only have so many years. I must live with vigour and joy; and resolve not to be frugal or selfish.

Do what we love while we can. I have lived but not always in the way I want. I have to ask myself how do I see myself living. I have to decide what I want and what I don't want, what I want to be and what journey I am after. The decision will be based on the circumstance I am in and what I know and don't know.

Often we are influenced. It is common for people to define you according to what they think or believe. Often, these are people who are not living their dream, who are not loving life, who are not happy and healthy and well off. The same goes for news articles, media or any source of information we consume as they are likely written by people who are not living the life we want to live.  As such, these people do not have any authority to dictate my life. It is more beneficial to listen to people who are already at where I want to be. External forces may mean well, but they may not be what I want.

I am not right or wrong. There is no right or wrong. It is simply one's perspective. I believe that the only rule is to not seriously harm others. In the end, I am the only one who decides.

Early retirement is not the goal. Living the way I want is.

I have One Life. One God Breathed Life. To make it happen. Am I going to choose to live?

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