Thoughts on Life

You only have one chance at life, one chance to be happy, and one chance to make the most of your world. Nothing ever comes to those who lie around and wait for their calling, things happen to those of us who go out and find our calling. For many of us life is not handed to us on a sliver platter, but something we have to work and strive for. For those of us that have the easy route, there are no experiences and no sense of self satisfaction to be gained.

In my opinion there are two ways we can go through life, one, living to the height of our experiences, never taking anything for granted, and always pushing for that next adventure. The second way of life - pretending to be happy, but making everyone around you miserable, pretending to have that perfect life, never admitting failure and always faulting everyone else. Living of life of denial is not a way of life.

There are many of us that have been dealt a bad hand of cards, but how do we play those in everyday life? My friend, it is not easy. We have to take what god gave us and learn to play the hand that was dealt. True happiness will come within as you grow and learn. You will learn to be comfortable in yourself, as long as you look at yourself, and see that beauty that lies within.

Too many of us see an outside, a person for their status in life, but not for the person inside. I have learned that status and money doesn't always mean happiness and comfort. This is something that we should never base ourselves as a whole on. There are so many experiences in life that come through adventure, hurt, pain, love and laughter.

Learn to appreciate the simple things in life, the beautiful things, and the things that take your breath away. See the world for what it is, the good and the bad. Live each day as if it may be your last, and never take the one’s around you for granted. Never take life for granted.

There is no guarantee that things will be easy, or that the road you chose will always lead you in the right direction. Always remember that we can take those bad times and reflect back to learn and grow, even the bad times we should never take for granted. For those may be the times that make us a stronger and more willful person. It will make us wise, wise to ourselves and to give the knowledge of experience to others.

Never pretend to be someone you are not, that will only make you lose sight of yourself, and you will be denying yourself the true beauty of life, for you will never know what its like to live in your own shoes.

We are on this planet for such a short time and the one chance we have to live should be lived to the fullest.