Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.
As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
One thing is for sure, procrastinators waste the most precious asset a human can have: time.
Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.
We so often fill our days with unnecessary stress and strife by focusing on the negative instead of the positive, taking part in mean-spirited and hurtful gossip, making mountains out of mole hills, or bickering over issues that in the larger scheme of things are inconsequential.
To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungful of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself.
For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee
Do it now! It can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don’t feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do.
It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved…
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy?
Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic?
Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised?
Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard?
No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.
The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.
No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
Friends are the people who see past your flaws and accept that you too are only human. Both of you (or all of you, depending on the size of your group) are navigating your way through life.
Sometimes, our families and significant others don’t see how hard we’ve been trying in COLLEGE, WORK or holding together our household. There are certain things you wish to say but fear they might judge you. This is not the case with your best friend(s).
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Thank you …A friend who becomes an enemy after a little misunderstanding has been an enemy all along. They were just pretending.
Never expect.
Never demand.
Never ask.
Never assume.
Just let it be. If it’s meant to be, it’ll happen.
Learn to say: That’s on you. Your behavior is on you. The way you move is on you. The choices you make are all on you. The way you live, it’s all on you. Recognize what belongs to you and what doesn’t.
The man or woman you choose to be your partner affects everything in your life: your mental health, your peace of mind, the love inside of you, your happiness, how you get through tragedies, your success, how your children will be raised, and so much more.
Choose very wisely.
Life is always walking up to us and saying, “Come on in, the living’s fine,” and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
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We have a choice to smile and feel blessed to see a sunrise. We have a choice to pull ourselves, groggily out of bed, and make a coffee to start a day of unknowns. Some of us have the choice to stay in bed and fear the world, or push ourselves to get up and go to work.
Whatever the choice is- You are ALIVE.
You have a heartbeat, you are breathing, and you have the ability to choose how you live.
I spend my weekdays silently struggling with myself, unless I have a concrete plan ahead of me. If I need to be at a certain place, at a certain time, I will make it happen.
Alternatively, if I have a wide open day, but still need to accomplish tasks for work, I argue with myself, try and make a plan.
Then I try to stick with it. Having anxiety can be a struggle, but I manage.
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Some people cannot function, being told what they have to do, while others function better when they are led by others. It comes down to the differences of personality types, lifestyles, culture and focus.
Weekends I enjoy sleeping in, at least until 7 am. I savour my morning coffees, and relax, as I read, or chat with my partner, until we figure out the plan for the day.
For whatever reason, “you only live once” grates on me, like nails on a chalkboard.
It is a lie.
We can live like it’s our last day, or we can choose to live as if every day is a clean slate. The attitude we have, as we wake each day, varies day to day, season to season, and year to year.
Sometimes life is easy, and other days, it is hard as hell. Good days come, and bad days crawl in. But it’s all living. We are all fortunate to experience the time we have on this Earth, even if every day is not all sunshine and butterflies.
When we struggle, we fight to get to the light at the end of the tunnel. When we celebrate, we wish the happiness and feeling of bliss would stay with us longer. We embrace the wonder of birth, and we mourn the loss of people who leave our world.
It’s all experiences that teach us lessons, and in turn, are taught to our children. We are blessed to have those moments of clarity and reason.
We eat, we travel, we learn, we listen, we laugh, we cry, we fear, we feel frustration, we feel anger, we exercise, we relax, we indulge, we save, we squander, and we love.
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