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You are finite
You are finite
Humans shall not live eternally for there is happiness in mortality… there is purpose and intention in knowing that one day shall be your last. We can be greater than life itself for we can remember the ephemeral nature of this very moment, for we can treasure a memory and we can appreciate each and every verse we write with our lives in the span of a beating heart.
Everything and anything you hold dear in this life is finite. However you define what is important to you - be it your parents, your significant other, your dreams, your hobbies, your friends – they will one day vanish from existence.
There’s a ticking timer for everything you will experience, everything you will do, everything you will love, so I suggest you give it your ABSOLUTE ALL. Give it your all this year, today, this very moment, for if you don’t you shall forever be haunted by your unlived life.
Don’t wait to give it your absolute all for your deathbed may be closer than you except. Your deathbed might be decades, or seconds from reading these words. Regardless of when your clock may last tick, my hope is that you shall not forget that you are finite.
I wish for you to imagine your absolutely craziest and most unbelievably incredible dream life. I wish for you to be able to view it, to put into words what would be for YOU the most meaningful life and GO CREATE IT! There is absolutely nothing more important in life.
Marcus Aurelius said “Let each thing you would do, say or intend be like that of a dying person.“ to remind us all that we are dying. Be it today, tomorrow or next year. Why wait for your deathbed to say, do, be all that you wish if you might, at any time, succumb to the embraced of death.
what is important TO you
what is important TO you
To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson who said “The world is built by the unreasonable man”, I’d say you can build your life into it’s wildest and most meaningful version only by being unreasonable with life and most importantly: with yourself.
But above all else, remember that which is important to YOU. Remember what YOU value. Remember to have the courage to live your life, the one YOU wish to live. According to the book "Top 5 Regrets of the Dying" by Bronnie Ware , the number one regret people have in their last living moments is “I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”
In the world of a hyper-achiever, 80 hours work week, Photoshopped reality the only way to live a life worth living is to live a life according to yourself and no one else’s ideals.
Empty your life of the moments full of unimportance. Fill your spent seconds with the plentiful you have lived while you learnt how to die.
"To bestow form on your life is, literally, to practice the existential art of living, which is only possible if we are willing to miss out on other things. If your life takes a certain form, it follows logically that it cannot take a myriad others." - Svend Brinkmann
Choose your path and let yourself burn as bright as you can on the road you have chosen. Don’t be afraid to set your flame ablaze, for you don’t risk burning faster. Instead you run the risk of igniting other’s desires for their true lives, helping them follow their chosen paths and you just might walk your path and become / do / experience what you have always wanted.
“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life.”
– Steve Jobs
Remember you are dying and use death as the most liberating gift you have ever received. Use it as your greatest excuse to fight the unimportant. Use it to light your path on the road you call your life. Embrace death for when you come to terms with your own ephemerality you are freed to live.
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