I hear it all the time. People are always saying life is too short. Live it to the max. Do not waste time. Tell the ones you love how much they mean to you. You hear these things all the times, but we still take people for granted. We still put off following our dreams till tomorrow, or one day. We don’t tell the people we love, how much they mean to us. The problem is not that life is too short, it is that life is too long.
If we knew that we were going to die really soon and that our life was really short, we would live life like we think it should be lived. However, we know, or at least we expect to live a long time. We don’t believe that we are going to die today, but someday when we get old. Therefore, it is the belief that we are going to be around for a while that makes us complacent and makes it easier to procrastinate. It is the knowing that we will probably grow old and live a long life that keeps us from seizing the moment now.
Therefore, in my opinion life is too long, not too short. How amazing would it be if everyone lived like today was their last day, every day for their entire long life?
Don’t wait for that one day. Seize the moment now. Be daring. Dare to dream and then follow that dream. Do it now.
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