We all are born right? We all come into this life the same way. We all live life, and then we all eventually meet the end of our life. It is weird to think about isn't it as a kid, that one day you will possibly be a grandparent. That one day you are going to be old and gray.
It is weird to think about as a 17 year old because all you have ever known is your parents taking care of you, supplying you with some help, buying your food, and giving you a home to live in. You get in your final year in High School and then you realize that, that is all going to change, that one day you will be living on you own (well I hope at least). Have you ever thought about that?
Being a teenager you don't have to worry about paying bills and making mortgage payments. We all get older though everyday, and one day in the not so distant future you are going to be doing those things. You will have to make a career choice, go to a job for 40 hours or more a week, make car payments, pay hospital bills, buy food for your home, buy a house, get married, have kids, and much more that adults do that you would never have thought about doing as a teenage/kid.
The inevitable will happen and we will graduate from High School one day, turn 18 and become an adult in the world we know. Vote for our elected officials, and just so much more that we never would have thought about or even dreamed of doing. When that day comes will you (I) be ready to do all those things? So, yeah sure we become a young adult in the world, now what? Well we keep on aging, we get older and older as the time clicks onward, never EVER stoping, giving you a chance to relive a moment, stay the same age.
Before you know it your in the middle of life, you are married, have at least one kid, and have had a career for more than five years. You look back on your life, did you do everything to your full desire? Have you done everything you have wanted to do in life? Look at you life, do you enjoy what you are doing? If there is anything you want to change, if you are not happy with one aspect of your life, I say CHANGE IT! Do whatever you can to make sure you are living you life to its full potential! Why right, why am I saying this? Because you only have one life to live, so why not make it about what you want to do to make yourself happy, and to do what you have always wanted to do. Of course making people happy too along the way, don't be a jerk about things, but if you don't wake up every morning enjoying what you are doing, then something needs to be changed because before you know it, it is going to be to late.
I would say go skydiving or something but that has been over used for living in the moment and doing something exciting with your life. I say find the one you love, and not just "love" someone who you can share anything with. Someone who you know everything about, someone who you could spend every waking minute with for the rest of your life, someone who you couldn't live without, and someone you you deeply love. I say go to an airport and hop on the first plane out of there. Take a trip to a foreign country every year. Go mountain climbing. Do things that you will enjoy. Make memories that you will remember for the rest of your life.
One day you are going to wake up somewhere and you are going to be 80 years old having lived a full life. So, "Seize the day" I say, because one day you will be old. Being old isn't a bad thing though, just as long as you have lived your life, and know that in your last breath of life that you haven't regretted one moment of your life.
Remember "Carpe Diem, seize the day." Remember that and follow it for you entire life, from the beginning, middle, and all the way to the end!
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