Life is too short…

written on June 14, 2010 in Life

…to fret, to be angry, to be sad, to hold grudges, and to waste our time on things we’ll regret and people that can’t make us smile. Looking back, I feel like I’ve spent too much of my time on those unhappy moments, and now that I’m 22¹, I’m finally beginning to realize what’s really worth my time and what isn’t. Sure, I still have many years (I hope ) ahead of me, but I want to make the most out of every minute and hour, so that one day when I’m 50 and I look back, I can smile and say “Damn those were some awesome 50 years”.

And it’s not just my age that made me understand this. Just this January my mom was diagnosed with Stage III colon cancer. And just before that my uncle was diagnosed and die of stomach cancer, and a close family friend got breast cancer. Now, another close family friend² got diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. All 4 of these people seemed perfectly fine and healthy before their diagnosis, and none of them were older than 55 when cancer was found, yet here they are now, with their world turned upside down. It just goes to show how fragile and short life is, and if you don’t make the most of it now, you never know when you might lose that opportunity for good.

So I’ve made a promise to myself: to live to the fullest each day, spend time doing things I love, with people that make me smile, and with no regrets. Life is too short for anything else. Error processing request