live life to the fullest

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

~Mother Teresa
Catholic Nun, Missionary
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient

I belive that you only live and die once, so do what you can, while you can. I there is that one thing in your life that you always wanted to do, do your best to achive it. I always wanted to do to Disney World….I DID IT! I ♥ u mickey!!!!

Stay motivated

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i hate getting sick.
it stops me from living life how i want to.
i can’t go out, i can’t work, i can’t concentrate.
today i need to study for a test tomorrow but i just don’t feeeeel like it.
i don’t even want to go tomorrow but because of this test, i have to.
i was also going to go to the ekka today, but can’t do that either anymore.
i hope that i’ll be better before friday, because i’ve been looking forward to british india sooo much.
and if i have to go when i’m sick it’ll just suck.

This passage is taken from pages 42-43 in the section on Awareness.
I want to post it here, so I can come back and re-read it anytime I need a reminder of what it means to me to live, I love her expression. It really resonated with me today.

“I read last, choosing a poem with the cheery title “When Death Comes”. I read along unsuspecting till I got to a line in which Oliver writes about coming to the end and wanting to say that she has spent her life married to amazement.
Suddenly something unexpected happened to me. My throat tightened. My eyes filled. I don’t mean sad tears, but the kind that leak from something brimming.
I looked at the faces around the room. They seemed beautiful and shining to me. I glanced at a common white lily in a vase and honestly, the sight nearly wiped me out. It was that impertinently gorgeous. Out of nowhere, plain and simple objects were rising up to show off their flame. The divine, unnameable spark. I couldn’t think what to name the feeling, except amazement at life. It was if something fell from my eyes and I saw everything just as it is.
One second I was going along in a jaded marriage with life ( because let’s face it, the intimacy can fade after awhile if you don’t work on the relationship) when it rode in and swept me off my feet. I learned to be in love with life again. And I didn’t even know the romance had slipped.
“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it”, wrote Emily Dickinson. Somehow I”d begun moving through life on automatic pilot, half-seeing, half-here, abducted by the dreaded small stuff. But the evening of my party I realized all over again: We will have a true and blissful marriage to life only to the extent we are aware.
So. That’s how I resolved the question about what I wished to become notorious for at fifty. Let it be for nothing more than harboring a wild amazement at life. Let it be for choking up at poetry and the sight of human faces. For falling into easy rapture over lilies and all the other run-of-the-mill marvels that make up life. Let me become notorious for going around with my bridal veil tossed back and my mouth saying I do. Renewing my vows with life. Every day. A hundred times a day.”

why not??

Stop complaining, start doing… I went to a memorial service for my uncle that passed away last week. I was just reflecting on fragile life really is. I’ve been struggling with family members lately and while I sat in the service, I just realized that I spent so much time worrying about petty things. I let relationships fall apart because of my petty behavior. I have to remember how precious life, family, friends, etc. really are. I will have to tell people I love them more often.

i feel scattered

gahhh!!

i feel dirty, and wrong.
nothing looks like it is what it’s supposed to be.
nothing looks right!

not even my music feels right anymore
arghhhh what is going on?

i feel bored and unfulfilled and … empty?

i think my thought patterns have changed
i used to think about sunny days and bright colours a lot
now i don’t :(
i don’t know what this is.

I have lived in two great major cities, new york and los angeles and now I’m traveling around Europe for three months….after that, I don’t know I do think that life is meant to be experienced and ENJOYED and I certainly am doing my best at loving every minute and following my heart.

well… I am so glad to put this as one of my goals because i am sick and tired of living like my life is going to end. I’m learning so much about myself and this is the perfect time to work hard for what I want. I can’t wait!