Today I Got a Reality Check

Today I wasn’t planning on writing a blog, because I couldn’t think of anything, and truth be told I have been lacking inspiration lately. I can probably say, lack of inspiration has been in almost every aspect of my life for the past few days, as I’ve been struggling to find myself again. I’m sure we all experience moments or days when we feel like nothing is going our way and we are one second short of throwing in the towel and saying “I give up.” This may be our reaction towards school, work, a certain situation and so forth. I will also add that most of the time, to be more specific, maybe 90% of the time, we overreact, jump to conclusions and make our situation a world war issue. But today I got a harsh reality check, one that shook me to my core and made me realize the only one thing that matters; living and being healthy. All of a sudden, my reality got altered and I fully understood how short life really is. This blog post is not to depress you, but to share with you that tonight all the problems I thought I had instantaneously not only became laughable, but suddenly unimportant.

We always hear that life is too short and to live in the moment and so on. Yes most of these quotes are cliche and we don’t think about them, but tonight I realized just how short life is. There is so much more to life than our simple problems we focus on and magnify. Nothing matters in life except living, loving and doing both of those as much as possible. Telling our loved ones how much they mean to us. Telling our kids how much we love them. Going out and enjoying a simple cup of coffee with our friends or family, to just LIVE in that moment.

As humans, we tend to complicate things and look for the details, when we should be concentrating on the bigger picture. The bigger picture is nothing but the simple fact of LIVING LIFE and nothing more. It is not about anything else. And to live is to know that tomorrow may not be guaranteed. It is also to not fear death, knowing that today you fulfilled your destiny while you were alive. I am filled with so much emotion tonight that for the first time it’s hard for me to fabricate my thoughts before writing them down. But that’s ok, because sometimes words don’t need to be put into perfect sentences, as long as it comes from the heart. That is where I stand today. I want to live each day as I would a lifetime, instead of treating it as a day wasted in the sum of the days i expect to have been granted in my understanding of a lifetime.