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.

Like Water on a Ducks Back...

The world is full of negative people- people that put you down, people that tell you you're worthless, people that say you can't succeed, people that let you know that they want to see you fail. We've all heard the phrase 'let it slide like water on a duck's back', but if you're anything like me, you would have never paid heed to this powerful statement.

Often in life we stop doing something that we love or are incredibly talented at, because somebody tells us that we can't succeed. Somebody plants a seed of negativity into us, and we let it grow instead of letting it slide like water on a duck's back. We need to somehow develop this ability to let negativity slide off us and let encouragement and positivity soak into us.

What if we all grew a shield to negativity and stopped allowing negative comments to enter our lives, what if we let it slide like water on a duck's back and didn't stop doing what we loved because of something that someone said? If we did that, we would have a strong, confident culture. We wouldn't have people that were unsuccessful because somebody said they couldn't do it. We would be successful, we would be everything we wanted to be. We would be positive people.

So be a duck and let it slide; because if something doesn't build you up, it's not worth letting into your life- because you are worth more than what someone thinks.

Wishes....

So lately I've been thinking: where did the time go, where have the days gone... why is it so different now? Now that we're older, that we're more sane; smarter. Why can't we believe in angels anymore? Why can't we wish on stars, why can't we believe that wishes come true.

I always wonder when we lost the ability to believe in things like that. To make a wish, and then somehow believe that it'll come true. I used to wish on stars. I used to believe that the stars would tell God. I used to think that somehow, my wish would come true. I don't remember how it stopped. I don't remember one time when my wish didn't come true. I used to wish on stars so that someone else knew what was going on in my life too; so that someone could fix it; because I knew that I couldn't fix my situation, but maybe someone could. I don't know how I lost that faith, I don't how I managed to start thinking that no one wanted to hear about my thoughts, my feelings and my problems.

I think that this faith; the faith in people, the faith in love, the faith in peace and the faith that everything is going to be alright, is what keeps a smile on the face of a five-year old. They never doubt for a second, whether or not they'll have a friend at school today, or whether they're putting on too much weight, or whether their clothes are too unfashionable. They never doubt the fact that somebody loves them and that somebody cares for them, they put their everything into day-to-day tasks because they're never worried that their best is not good enough. they wish on stars, because they know that believing in the simple things is what keeps life from being complicated.