june 17th, 2022
"Don't you ever get the feeling that all of your life is going by and you're not taking advantage
of it? Do you realize you've nearly lived half the time you have to live already?"-Ernest Hemmingway.
I recently had a conversation with my boyfriend and his family.
Walking has become a huge passion of mine this past year and I was discussing the fact that when
I graduate, I want to walk across a country. That I want to take a month or so off my life
and just focus on the sounds of nature and how beautiful the world is.
His mom said to me "just don't wait until it's too late and your body can't keep up"
and this comment really struck me. How often do we spend waiting for the good
moments and taking things off the bucket list rather than we actually spend doing them?
Time is a really interesting concept for me, although I'm sure the majority of us
take interest in it. The fact that all of the best moments in my life so far
have already passed and I can't get them back but i can wait for the future to get some more.
Or that I've spent approximately 192 thousand hours on this earth
but I widdle the jist of it down to a one minute segment when asked who I am.
That every time I look back on who I was in the past I see myself
as though I were a different person tackling different problems to the ones I have now.
We all fear time and how short our life really is yet we waste so much of it on the wrong things:
accomplishments just for bragging rights, spending with the people we don't love,
stressing over the things we cannot change. A lot of us wish our life away saying "i'll be happy
when..." instead of looking at the things that we can be happy about right now. I understand
it's important to be a realist and spend a portion of your life setting yourself up for a good one,
but I think in today's society we have lost track of the balance we need for a good life.
For example being able to switch off your work mind and enjoy dinner with your family
or spending most of your life planning for a future that is not certain.
if I were to ask you right now: "Are you spending your life the way you want to?" would you say yes
with 100 certitude? If you were to write a list of five things that make you happy,
are those five things on your daily agenda enough.
For me, I get the most joy from talking with my friends walking and experiencing something
new whether it be a new city or a new meal; So this summer I decided to do just that. I
have created a big summer bucket list with all the things i want to do from having a romantic
dinner in the Cinque Terre, to seing Andrea Bocelli in concert to ziplining in Slovenia.
It's time to stop living in the future and past and make your present the best moment yet.
One day, I'm going to look down at my hands and see the physical journey they've been on
through the scars and wrinkles I'll have and I hope I'll think I've lived my life well.
One thing that always seems to be on people's bucket lists is learning a new language
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