While You Still Can
This is what happens when I can't sleep.
This is an obnoxious way of saying that change is constant, and I'm gonna go for it because it has denser finality.
Let me tell you something about priorities—they're the only things that will matter once you get out into the real world and start earning your stripes. Priorities come with sacrifices, some of them rather unspeakable and you never thought you'd ever do in your life. Once you get out of school and leave everything behind in the hope of turning yourself into somebody, you gradually start to matter less. A storm could never be a valid excuse for you to ditch work. When a friend you haven't seen in a while invites you to dinner or a movie and you have to be somewhere, you choose what's not negotiable. At one point, you're going to give up a lot of things, even the things you swore not to turn your back on when duty calls. The truth is, the real world is all about duties—not family, not friends, not yourself. Believe me, I have no problem answering to responsibilities because they're actually the reason why we're given the privilege to live in this world in the first place. We are chosen to be stewards of God's creation. It just sucks that it's only in the end that we get to know if our sacrifices are worth it.
When everything had already been said and done.
When some had already walked away.
And when we're incredibly powerless to bring back what we lost.
Wise men say that what you sacrifice for the good is always worth it. Then again, what if it's not? What is success without the people you love? What is love without accomplishment? The worst part is, in life, you only get one of the good stuff, never both. And even then, you have to live under a cloud of uncertainty. When you get what you worked for is not the end of the rainbow; it's the bridge between your good stuff and the thing that eventually takes it from you. When it gets taken from you, you start over and it'll happen again. It's a vicious cycle. It's life.
I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say here.
I guess I just want to encourage everybody to seize the day because only God knows if tomorrow shall come.
We can always make a living, but we can never buy life.
Spend time with the people that matter to you while you still can, laugh with them while you still can, and give to them what you can while you still can; so that when they eventually get taken from you, you'll have no regrets. Your memories with them will be powerful enough to trump the despair of loss.
Rain just started falling.
Perfect.
Nothing is permanent.
This is an obnoxious way of saying that change is constant, and I'm gonna go for it because it has denser finality.
Let me tell you something about priorities—they're the only things that will matter once you get out into the real world and start earning your stripes. Priorities come with sacrifices, some of them rather unspeakable and you never thought you'd ever do in your life. Once you get out of school and leave everything behind in the hope of turning yourself into somebody, you gradually start to matter less. A storm could never be a valid excuse for you to ditch work. When a friend you haven't seen in a while invites you to dinner or a movie and you have to be somewhere, you choose what's not negotiable. At one point, you're going to give up a lot of things, even the things you swore not to turn your back on when duty calls. The truth is, the real world is all about duties—not family, not friends, not yourself. Believe me, I have no problem answering to responsibilities because they're actually the reason why we're given the privilege to live in this world in the first place. We are chosen to be stewards of God's creation. It just sucks that it's only in the end that we get to know if our sacrifices are worth it.
When everything had already been said and done.
When some had already walked away.
And when we're incredibly powerless to bring back what we lost.
Wise men say that what you sacrifice for the good is always worth it. Then again, what if it's not? What is success without the people you love? What is love without accomplishment? The worst part is, in life, you only get one of the good stuff, never both. And even then, you have to live under a cloud of uncertainty. When you get what you worked for is not the end of the rainbow; it's the bridge between your good stuff and the thing that eventually takes it from you. When it gets taken from you, you start over and it'll happen again. It's a vicious cycle. It's life.
I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say here.
I guess I just want to encourage everybody to seize the day because only God knows if tomorrow shall come.
We can always make a living, but we can never buy life.
Spend time with the people that matter to you while you still can, laugh with them while you still can, and give to them what you can while you still can; so that when they eventually get taken from you, you'll have no regrets. Your memories with them will be powerful enough to trump the despair of loss.
Rain just started falling.
Perfect.
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