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LIVE. Don't Just Exist!


Whilst scrolling through my facebook news feed sometime back, I came across this great quote;
"Some people die at 25 & aren't buried until 75."
This hit me real hard & it got me to thinking "What in hell's name are we doing with our lives?." Although I was already experiencing quite a great deal outta life, somehow, this quote made me feel like it wasn't enough. And guess what? It's never enough.

How we choose to live our lives may vary from person to person. Whilst traveling may appeal as truly living to one, a career to die for may appeal the same to another. Some people refer to partying every weekend as living life to the fullest whilst for some it's nothing but a hearty breakfast in bed with your loved ones on a cold Sunday morning. 

Whichever it is, it has to be something that sets your soul on fire, makes you smile like a 15 year old in love & keeps your heart bursting with contentment at the end of the day.

If you don't feel your heart exploding outta happiness every now and then, if you don't fall short of breath outta mere excitement & if all you wanna do at the end of the day is collapse onto your bed, then you're not living. You're just existing.

For most of the part, life is pretty routine. It can get boring & it can be exhausting. As people who stick to a strict working schedule, this is pretty normal. But what matters is what we choose to do outside of that routine.
For people who enjoy their career more than anything, they'll barely have any complains. As for the others who go to work just to make a living, you can still find your passion outside of work. Engage in activities that makes you feel great to be alive. 

Living your life to the fullest doesn't necessarily mean vacationing in Bora Bora or sipping martinis in Mykonos. It doesn't have to be about getting engaged under the Eiffel tower or kissing strangers on NYE in Times Square. Well, by all means, go ahead and do all that if you can afford it. But I'm talking about the simpler things that'll truly make you grateful for this life.

Some of life's greatest joys are found in the simplest of moments.

If you're tired of working a whole week straight, plan a road trip with your buddies. Take long walks in the evenings after long, crappy, boring work meetings. Find something new to do. Take a cooking class, join a gym, go for yoga, bake a cake, take a kick-boxing lesson. Do things you've always been afraid of doing. Things like sky diving, bungee jumping, scuba diving, mountain hiking. Go out on a Friday night & pull off an all nighter, dancing your heart out. Engage in acts of kindness that helps the lives of others & feels good in your heart, like charity events, fund raising, orphanage visiting. Find new events on your social calendar & take part atleast once for experience sake. Things like wine tasting, culinary exhibitions, auctions, masquerade balls, etc. 

Create a new lifestyle that benefits both your mental & physical health. Start a new diet plan, a workout plan, a new morning/night routine, a new makeup routine. Save up and visit a place you've never been before. Do it every year, two times a year or however way convenient to you. Make a new friend from every place you go, locally or foreign. Explore cultures, discover people, try new cuisines. The options are endless, REALLY!  It's all about keeping yourself occupied & satisfied, both at the same time. It's about looking back one day & being able to say "been there, done that" instead of just being busy and saying I missed out on so much. It's about being young at heart no matter the age & willing to do something extravagant. To go into depths than merely surfing in the shallow. 

It's never too late to start over & it's never too late to keep adding something new, one step at a time. But just don't die before you're dead. 
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