There’s this legendary statement by the late Steve Jobs that goes something like this: “If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you’ll be right.”
That statement changed my life, as I knew it. I was never the same.
I know I’m young, but it meant something to me. Essentially, all of a sudden, the shortness life hit me. All of a sudden I realized how meaningful life is, and how it’s such a gift that we have to enjoy in every imaginable way.
Too many days, I haven’t lived like it was my last. I played it safe. Settled for things I thought I wanted, but later realized I didn’t. Settled in bad relationships. Settled in hanging out with people who I know I had no business hanging out with. I was existing just because. You know what I mean? I wasn’t being strategic. I was just here on this earth going with the flow.
When I saw Jobs’s quote, something hit me. I mean the guy was a genius, so obviously he had gained great truths about life that go far beyond living in the status quo and accepting it. It was in that moment that I decided that I wanted to make the most of each day, each hour, and each second of my life.
I wanted to fully live in a sense where I felt complete and happy…where I felt I was really living on a day that could be my last. I know it’s hard to do this every day, because life happens. However, choosing to live in this way changed the reality of how I see life, how I see my purpose, and how I see the essence of who I am. It was when I decided to live each day like it were my last that I began to understand this idea of time and how we shouldn’t take it for granted.
Being that we are given this gift of life, I don’t want to waste it. I want to use every bit of it up to the fullest. I want to live it, knowing that I did it in the best way that I could. I don’t want to live an ordinary life, I want to live in an extraordinary way. And because of deciding this for myself… now, I feel so free.
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