By Shazad
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
Seneca. On The Shortness of Life
When someone asks me how I am, I often respond with “Another Day in Paradise”, “Awesome!”, or “Every Day Above Ground is a Good Day!” because that’s the kind of person I am. I’m not an extreme optimist or a person with permanent Rose Coloured Glasses I wear night and day. I’ve had my share of stress, struggle, and even suffering. What I’ve realized is that we get to keep on improving life as long as we are alive.
Each and every day that you and I are blessed with means that we have 24 hours to make things right, make them better or make a plan which enables our family to carry on living a better life.
My life is not perfect and is not turning out exactly as I expected it to be each and every year. Lots of twists and turns as well as happy surprises happen to me and I’m sure they happen to everyone. The way I look at life, I can learn patience and make myself more resilient to some of the challenges of each day. I can also appreciate how so many things work out each day and I’m probably just taking them for granted. There are so many times that things came together for me and I had little idea that I would experience such beautiful outcomes.
I see life as an adventurous journey that we are all trying to navigate. We may have only a compass, a paper map, and the landscape to look at but it can be enough. We can continue trying to make progress while avoiding falling into some deep pit that traps us forever. Appreciating every day and learning how to manage the events of the day is the best way I know to live simply because I am alive. This is the start of living Awesome each day.
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