We all manage to convince ourselves to procrastinate the good things in life and delay happiness...
...until the morning.
...until the next paycheck.
...until we finish school.
...until we get to work.
...until we get settled down and get married.
...until we have kids.
...until the kids grow up.
...until they get married.
...until they have kids.
...until we retire.
...blah blah blah blah blah blah.
But why don't we ever realize that although there is a time for everything, what better time is there than now?
Grab each moment and seize every opportunity...
Watch the sun rise or watch it set.
Count the stars. Gaze at the moon.
Climb a mountain. Dive from a cliff.
Ride a go-cart or a hot air balloon.
Get a body piercing. Walk naked around the house.
Cry during a movie.
Hold hands. Kiss in public.
Fall in love.
Why do we deny ourselves the fun? Why do we care what other people think? Why do we feel guilty whenever we feel happy, just because...
...people are watching?
...our parents wouldn't approve?
...our friends wouldn't approve?
...we have yet to finish our homework?
...we haven't reached our quota?
...or we haven't gone to church?
We all tend to focus more on the problems and challenges we encounter, rather than the process by which we go through these. On our quest to happiness, we don't realize that happiness is the instrument and the pathway to what we so desperately seek for. To become happy, we must be happy.
Conservative individuals argue that doing the crazy things in life would cause them to lose the respect they have earned. Is there really logic in that? Would you respect someone who witholds himself from doing something he wants because of what other people may think, or someone who does something he wants despite what other people may think?
The great minds of the past 21 centuries will never be forgotten because they all defied the status quo and did what they had to do... they may have defied the law of Man (e.g. Nelson Mandela, Andres Bonifacio, the Unknown Rebel who stood in front of 17 tanks in Tiananmen Square, 1989) or even the law of Nature (e.g. Albert Einstein), the Church (e.g. Copernicus, Galileo) or society itself (e.g. Martin Luther King, Helen Keller, Ghandi), and beliefs that have been established for generations... they may have been imprisoned or they may have died for their cause... but in the End, they earned the respect they so deserved...because they stood up for what they believed in. Because they had the guts and the courage to seize the moment and make a difference.
So let's learn, instill and act from what they have demonstrated...
To live for the moment, by the moment.
No matter the consequence.
No matter the drama.
"Dance as if no one's watching......
Love like you've never been hurt......"
...until the morning.
...until the next paycheck.
...until we finish school.
...until we get to work.
...until we get settled down and get married.
...until we have kids.
...until the kids grow up.
...until they get married.
...until they have kids.
...until we retire.
...blah blah blah blah blah blah.
But why don't we ever realize that although there is a time for everything, what better time is there than now?
Grab each moment and seize every opportunity...
Watch the sun rise or watch it set.
Count the stars. Gaze at the moon.
Climb a mountain. Dive from a cliff.
Ride a go-cart or a hot air balloon.
Get a body piercing. Walk naked around the house.
Cry during a movie.
Hold hands. Kiss in public.
Fall in love.
Why do we deny ourselves the fun? Why do we care what other people think? Why do we feel guilty whenever we feel happy, just because...
...people are watching?
...our parents wouldn't approve?
...our friends wouldn't approve?
...we have yet to finish our homework?
...we haven't reached our quota?
...or we haven't gone to church?
We all tend to focus more on the problems and challenges we encounter, rather than the process by which we go through these. On our quest to happiness, we don't realize that happiness is the instrument and the pathway to what we so desperately seek for. To become happy, we must be happy.
Conservative individuals argue that doing the crazy things in life would cause them to lose the respect they have earned. Is there really logic in that? Would you respect someone who witholds himself from doing something he wants because of what other people may think, or someone who does something he wants despite what other people may think?
The great minds of the past 21 centuries will never be forgotten because they all defied the status quo and did what they had to do... they may have defied the law of Man (e.g. Nelson Mandela, Andres Bonifacio, the Unknown Rebel who stood in front of 17 tanks in Tiananmen Square, 1989) or even the law of Nature (e.g. Albert Einstein), the Church (e.g. Copernicus, Galileo) or society itself (e.g. Martin Luther King, Helen Keller, Ghandi), and beliefs that have been established for generations... they may have been imprisoned or they may have died for their cause... but in the End, they earned the respect they so deserved...because they stood up for what they believed in. Because they had the guts and the courage to seize the moment and make a difference.
So let's learn, instill and act from what they have demonstrated...
To live for the moment, by the moment.
No matter the consequence.
No matter the drama.
"Dance as if no one's watching......
Love like you've never been hurt......"
