Life Is Too Short? I Disagree

“Life is long. You’re probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you’re gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.” 

– Chris Rock

When I was younger I never thought I would live to be passed my early thirties. I had a different mentality back then. Friends that I hung around with had the same mentality. I believed life was short because I could never picture myself being old. This idea that “life is short” makes people do one of two things: (1) they might go crazy trying to do everything and anything, thinking that they only have a few years to live or (2) they won’t do anything because life is too short and nothing matters.

Now that I’m currently living in my early thirties, I have a different perspective on life. I treasure each day as if it was a God-given present. Each day I wake up thankful for the new day and thankful for the day before. Yet, we don’t know what the future holds for us.

If you do the math, it actually turns out that life is very long. Today is October 28, meaning we already lived for 300 days in 2014. If you want to count the hours, we’ve lived 7,200 hours this year alone. As I think back at my old-self, having already lived thousands of days, I wonder why I never did the math. So far, I’ve lived more than 11,000 days.

Holistically, it’s really how you take each day of your life that matters. Some people might say that 11,000 days is a short period of time, for some reason. I personally think it’s enough time, plenty of time, to do marvelous things. I don’t know what’s in store for me tomorrow or years from now, but my goal is to make every day count.

Whether you think life is short or life is long, the question should really be: what are you doing each day you have been given? Are you doing something valuable or just letting the days pass you by?

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