Before It‘s Too Late
Change
Like it or not
It’s happening all the time
Every story has a beginning, middle, end
Past
Present
Future
Nothing is forever
People
Places
Things
New
Old
Forgotten
Nothing is forever
Change
Twist, turns, and surprises
Life is very funny if you take the time to watch it
Jacques Tati – French mime, filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter
If you’d had told the twenty-five-year-old me that one day I would:
- Move to Germany and become a professional creative perfumer
- Move to England to marry and divorce a serial divorcee
- Have both of my hips replaced in one go
I would’ve laughed.
Life is funny.
A life worth living
The above image is inspired by a blog post by Tim Urban (1).
My expected lifespan is 78.8 years (2),
or 944 months.
So if we do the math: nine hundred and forty-four months expected lifespan minus six hundred and forty-two months lived gives me another three hundred and two months before the stats predict I’ll drop dead. 🙂
It doesn’t bother me that most of my life is probably over.
Because I’m grateful for the life that I had and have.
I’m still alive.
And I’m not taking things for granted.
When I was twenty years old, I learned the hard way that life is short.
My father unexpectedly died when he was forty-four.
We don’t all get to grow old.
Life is what it is.
There are no guarantees.
Who knows?
Maybe I’ll get lucky.
Maybe I’ll make it to 80, 90, or 100.
Who knows?
I don’t.
But, I do know one thing:
We might not know how much time we still have, but we can decide how we will spend our time.
Perhaps the best that any of us can wish for is not to be authentic but to live authentically – to choose to show up as our true selves and connect on a real level.
Kristi hedges – Author of The Inspiration Code & The Power of Presence
I want to live a life worth living.
Learning, creating, growing.
Sharing.
Life is short.
So make the most of it.
Before it’s too late!
References:
SHARING IS CARING!