To live instead of exist

i love my life, with its highs and lows, sunny days and torrential storms, love and unlove, giving and taking, learning and applying, falling and rising, sleeping and awakening, praying and singing, fullness and richness, zig and zag, yin and yang. i love the people who are in it, and i am excited by the people i am going to meet in the future. my life is a work in progress, a never-ending challenge to be better, to leave the world a better place than the one i was born into, to love and trust another.