YOLO

Live like you were to die tomorrow, love like you were to live forever.

In life we get one shot. We have one chance to live the best, to speak our mind, to influence, to serve, to reach and to make a difference; and it's never the things that we've done wrong that we regret, but the things we never did at all.

Sometimes we put the unimportant things before things that can truly make a difference. We choose the easiest thing over the right thing and we fail to remember that one chance is all we have. Sometimes things will come our way and we pass opportunity by because we think that someone else will do it instead. We need to stop and seize the day- make the most of every opportunity and make the right decision at every choice. Life is precious so live it well; do what is right, not what is easy.

Maybe the most important thing that life will ever teach, is to pay it forward. Paying it forward means blessing others when someone blesses you; paying it forward means helping others because someone helped you; paying it forward means putting others before yourself and going out of your way to do something for someone else. I've always wondered, what would happen if everyone did something for someone else for no particular reason at all? Truly then we would be loving like we were to live forever.

As people we need to learn to speak now, to act now, to love each other with unconditional and undying love. We need to be the best people that we possibly can be and leave a footprint on the world. We need to live the best because You Only Live Once.

When the going gets tough...

'When the going gets tough, the tough get going' it says. Sometimes, life knocks us down, pulls us apart and beats us up. We fall and we can't seem to get back up again.

Life has a way of overwhelming us. It makes things tough for us, makes us hurt, cry, break and grieve. It gives us hard decisions to make, it seems to complicate things and stress us out- as if we aren't stressed enough.

The 'stuff' in life comes at us in waves. Sometimes it's quiet and the tides are peaceful and calm- everything is how it should be. At other times, there are raging currents, pulling us this way and that, tearing us apart, pushing us around- things are tough but we gotta keep swimming. The weird thing is that the harder we kick and the harder we try to get ourselves out of rough situations, the harder our life seems to get. We just have to keep paddling, keep a tame mind, don't stress and know that God has all things under control. 

In my opinion, I think that the hardest thing to do when you're in the middle of trouble is to let go- to give all our worries to someone bigger than us and to just trust God. Why? Because I believe that God totally controls our lives- He's got us in His hand- and somehow, in the midst of tragedy, we seem to think that it's God's fault that we're in a muck. 

So all I wanna say is keep going, keep swimming, keep paddling and just keep on keeping on...