You only live once— but if you work it right. once is enough. Joe E .Lewis

Imagine you’re eighty years old sitting couch reading or doing some leisure activity you’ve always loved. At this point, you’re healthy and able to walk around the property everyday and notice the changing leaves, the blooming flowers. You pass by the friends you’ve made and share a mutual smile, perhaps it was last night’s hangout or the morning breakfast.On this day, on this average evening, you pass away. No expectations no warning. A sudden and painless death. Would you be happy with the memories you’ve made?

Was time well spent?

I say this, anecdotally to myself, as I procrastinate and push things off, even the things I love. And I do love them. To not hesitate to take challenges on, do not fear what you could have. I want this to be a reminder that at any given moment things can end abruptly, and if they do. Make sure it was all worth it. Don’t let yourself fall into boredom there is plenty to be done. Write a play, go on a hike, play a sport, fall in love, kiss the one you love, share a memory, do everything but be bored.

“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to >suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, .>he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a >purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not >suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.”