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What Do You Do When Life Passes You By?
Live while you can
You know the feeling when your days become a blur? When seconds turn into minutes, minutes into hours, and hours into years — years of your life that you have no idea how it all passed so quickly or what you did with it.
It’s like sitting on a bench, watching cars zoom past on their way somewhere, only it’s the moments of your life rushing by, and you have no idea how to stop them or slow them down.
So you get up and try to catch up with time. But you end up in a flurry of activities, thinking you’re making progress, only to look up and realize the cars are still speeding past — and all you‘ve managed to do, is distract yourself enough not to notice. You’re back to square one.
What do you do then?
You figure out how to walk, how to set a destination, and how to enjoy the flowers along your way. All of a sudden, you notice the sunset. You see the colors of the flowers in bloom. You even notice the majestic look of bare trees in winter. You realize that all along, you’ve been a prisoner of your mind — and everything you’d ever needed was already in you.
I don’t know if this piece even makes sense to you, but if you read this far and it does, then I hope it stirs in you the urgency to live life while you are alive.
Stop going through the motions. The clock is ticking. Do what makes you joyful, what makes you come alive, what makes you thrive.
Life is too short to hold off living. Live while you still can. Selah!
Until the next perfect time
~ Deola
