So what is life? Is it just breathing or is it about making every breath count. Well, it depends.
Depends on how you see it. Those days when you’re sitting in the back seat of the car with your
window open and your favorite music is playing. The fields outside complement with the
freshness of the air and sky is just the right shade. What is life but a reflection of your mood in
every moment you observe and have a conversation with yourself? Aren’t those moments just
priceless? Moments when you contemplate and reflect on life. Thinking about things that may or
may not matter but at that moment they are your only company.
Everyone would have a different definition of life. For some people, well, for most it is about
being successful. To be able to survive from day to day. But don’t we forget to actually live it?
Lucky are those kids who play in the fields and get bruised doing what they love. More amazing
is the fact how they get up laughing it off. Something very small but has a huge meaning. I
believe everything that happens is symbolic in one way or the other. That child getting up is
symbolic of how you must never give up. How there will be bumps in your road but that doesn’t
mean you don’t drive to your destination. How you might even have an accident doesn’t mean
you should be scared to walk the same path again. What is bravery but to face your own fears?
To look them in the eye and have an experience worth having.
The small things are what define us as an individual. The way we perceive and react to situations
are the times when we grow up. Happiness is a choice and believe me or not, it lies in moments,
those little things. What makes happiness priceless is the long duration of struggle we had before
we laughed at that moment. Laughed like never before, with tears of joy and blankness of mind.
The kind of laughter where your stomach hurt. Yes, that is what gave you the strength to finish
your job and return home. The home where you find peace in the form of people who love you
the most.
What if one day you realize it’s your last day? What would you do? Who would you talk to and
say what? What would you love to have as your last meal?
Sounds like big decisions to make. Especially when just yesterday it was so easy to dial any
the number and go to the next restaurant to have a steak.
It’s different when you know and realizes how short life can be that you pause and see how stupid
you’ve been all this while. You realize how much time you wasted in anger and jealousy. How
wrong you were to be sad about things that didn’t really matter in the long run. For it is then
when you see your life as a third person from distance. It is then when you know that maybe
what you did was wrong but not so wrong. It is who you are and have always been. If it not had
been for those mistakes you wouldn’t have realized how you really want to LIVE your life now
when you can count your breaths.
At that moment you start living your life. So, I believe what they said has always been true. It is
when you lose something you realize how important it was to you.
So why wait for that day? Why wait to know you have just a few days when technically right now
you have a lifetime to live your life to the fullest. So go out and make people smile because isn’t
that the most amazing feeling to do that. Trust me, being selfless can sound difficult and stupid
but what you receive in the form of emotions is priceless. You earn the friendship and love of
people who will always be there.
So stop by the mirror and take a moment to smile at yourself and appreciate how pretty you are.
How lucky you are to have this life.
So go out and have whatever you wanted to have not thinking about your size.
So go out there and compliment people, make someone’s day.
So go out there and do everything to make your parents happy and proud.
So go out there and fall in love hard. Don’t be scared of the tears, they bear testimony to how
true your feelings were.
So go out there and speak your heart out and get embarrassed.
So go out there and get lost in this whole wide world and live your dreams.
So go out there and make every moment count.
Just go and live your life for you might not have a chance at it again.
-SHATAKSHI PACHORI
