A good friend of mine always tells people to drive fast and take chances. He uses it as quick remark to sound funny, but I always wonder if people ever grasp the meaning behind it. Do we ever realize just how short life is. Think about how far just recorded history goes, we are living in the 21st century. How much time do we have to make our mark in the vast compilation of what will become history. It struck me by surprise to see my little sisters history book that contained 9/11 as one of the major points in history. To me that's still a current event, in fact most things that have happened of the course of my life are still current events in my mind. But still, the fact of the matter is that most elementary students these days were only two and three during one the most pivotal event in the war on terror.
I just started thinking to myself, almost 22 years in to my life and what have I done that will have any lasting effect on anyones life. I haven't destroyed a national monument, I haven't brought about world peace. In fact most of the things that I have done have been all because of what I was told to do. Grow up, go to school, get a job, start a family, go on a few vacations, watch the kids grow up, decide I'm not satisfied with my family, give up and get divorced, live out the rest of my days working and really accomplish nothing besides contribute to the ever faithful travesty of death and taxes. This is the life that for the majority of Americans will be the only life they ever know. Now understand, I'm not saying that there won't be any excitements in there, just that those are the main facts of most lives. Where are the heroes these days?
Heroes, knights in shining armor, argonauts, champions, where are they in our world now? Who amongst us have risen up above the mundane, lonely lives of the ordinary? Are they the capitalist tycoons such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? Or perhaps they are the amazing athletes such as Koby Bryant and Bret Favre? What do the people we praise as heroes have in common? What is different about their lives? It's simple.
Drive fast, take chances.
The only way to break free of the simple conveyor belt lives we lead is to make the conscious decision to change. Stop giving into what the normality is. Your life, is YOURS! It's the only one you get. I find it surprising that the one thing we will ever truly only get on of, life, is easily wasted by so many! We need to reach into ourselves, find out who we are as individual creations. Search your heart for your dreams and hold on to them. Take chances. If there is no risk in what we aim to attain then what is the value in it? If we risk nothin we will gain nothing, but to risk everything we will gain the world. Break free, be yourself, hold on to things like honor and virtue. Try everything at least once, never give into fear. Fear is the mind killer. Never give in to what others tell you cannot happen. Life is yours. No one can take it away from you except for yourself. Go out and risk it all just for the chance at having something of true value. Laugh at those who sit on the sidelines as you grab the bull by the horns. Go climb those mountains knowing that few ever will. Love like there is no tomorrow. Give your all into everything you do. Take a chance on life, then do it again, and again. I promise you, the good you find will out way the risks you thought were at stake. Get out there, live true!
Drive fast, take chances.
Some well put ideas on life, i especially like this, "accomplish nothing beside contribute to the ever faithful travesty that is death and taxes." illl comment some more later in class right now :)
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