Life Is For The Living

The twisted lie I have heard over the years is someone saying,'I will have fun and enjoy life when I finally buy the house, travel abroad, get one million contract.'

Blah, blah, blah.

It is draining to see how people have put their lives on hold, they can't enjoy a day at a time until their perfect dreams are accomplished.

Live is for the living, meant to be enjoyed every single day, with or without material things, because value is not placed on material things.

What happened to the little girl in you? What happened to the young lad in you?

You remember when you used to dance in the rain and have fun while it. Of course, you'd get a good beating from your folks but it didn't matter. You loved the rain beating on your soft skin.

You laughed at the way the dog and cat would have their fights. It puzzled you.

You would sit down and watch comedies all alone and laugh.

You never pushed away an opportunity to laugh, smile and have fun.

But then you stopped living. You had these expectations.

Live life. It will never be perfect so don't wait for that moment.

Don't wait to get married to enjoy life. What if  your name was not in the list of those to get married?

Don't put a pause to your happiness until you build that house.

Don't put off your happiness until you get that degree, you may end up having so many retakes and it might take you ten years to earn your degree.

Enjoy now, feel the sun on your skin, dance in the rain, laugh at your own silly jokes. Life is for the living.

If you can read this, you're alive and so you need to jump out of that bed where you've made a list of ten thousand reasons not to live life. Hit the shower, feel the air and live.

You'll be surprised at how life is beautiful, needs no complication. You'll realize how the birds are beautiful. You'll find the beauty of sitting and watching the stars at night.

You will laugh at your fat fingers and realize there's nothing you can do about it.

Enjoy the traffic and listen to some music. Pause, see the beauty. Laugh at the faces the drivers make including you when pedestrians are taking their sweet time to cross the road.

Enjoy the flowers your child brings you as she shouts just how much she loves you.

Breathe in, breathe out. Live.  Enjoy. You have today. You have now.