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Showing posts with label carpe diem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carpe diem. Show all posts

Monday, May 26, 2014

Year of Me


Here’s the thing. People. Make. Choices. Hundreds a day, who knows how many in a lifetime. Some people are satisfied with their choices, and some people have serious regrets. I have a friend who I greatly admire because she says that she’s never regretted anything that she’s done in her life. I think that’s the sign of a seriously secure person (I also think that when I said admire I meant envy). I wish I could be half as confident with my own choices.
“No one wants to hear about your shitty life.” I heard that on a TV show once. I forgot the show, but I wrote that down on a sticky note and stuck it in a random drawer in my room. For a while now, my friends and family have been hearing a lot about my so-called “shitty life,” host of regrets, and missed opportunities. It’s not fair and it’s created rifts. Unhappiness and loneliness will make you do a lot of things that you told yourself you would never do. I don’t want to be that person.
Officially, the next 365 days are going to be my “Year of Me” (in my mind anyway). All choices that I think will help me lead a fulfilling life, allll the time. I want to find a job that I like, and not just one that I have to endure. I want to help as many people as possible. I want to take the time to laugh, put my arm around someone, and tell them that I care about them. I want the choices that I make to create some sort of kick-ass butterfly effect (also a great movie). I’m not saying I won’t make any choices that I’ll come to regret (I’m not my friend, and I never will be), but I’ll be out there, trying to do things that make me happy.

First things first, clean my room, get some pistachio gelato, and binge watch Graceland season 1, H :)

 More chances ... seize them. Every time you can make a positive choice, DO IT! (Like Solar Energy... :))


 

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Making Your Life Extraordinary

I bought “7: How Many Days in the Week Can Be Extraordinary?” By Dan Zadra for H as one of her birthday presents. I bought it on Uncommon Goods on a very trying day, hoping that it would inspire her, or at the very least get her thinking. To sum up the book in one sentence: Carpe Diem. Seize the day! The ultimate motivational, inspirational phrase. The book itself offers quotes and things to think about, and upon flipping through it when it arrived in the mail, I found it to be just what it had advertised on its cover and more.

“7” brings up the fact that no day is insignificant, which I had never really thought about before. Until that moment I was confident that I was living my life experiences out to the fullest degree, but do I really?

“This is my one and only life. And it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive.” – Holly, PS I Love You (2007)

On a typical day, my life isn’t too exciting. I’m not on a movie set, jetting around the world, going to an amazing concert or anything like that every day of the week. But does that make my normal days insignificant? “7” says no, that every day is a day that could change your life. You just have to let it.

This doesn’t mean totally life altering events, although it could. But more along the lines of appreciating every day you’re given, seeking opportunities and doing what you want to do, whenever you want to do it since “someday is not a day of the week”. Seeing the small things, the things that make you smile or make you curious, those sweet moments that aren’t big events but make you feel warm and comfortable inside. Anything can change your life, so why not take every chance you get to make it extraordinary?

“And in the end I think I've learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I've even gone one step further than my father did: The truth is I now don't travel back at all, not even for the day, I just try to live every day as if I've deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life. –Tim, About Time (2013)
-J


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