Existing means you are breathing, inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. Going to bed when you are sleepy and waking up the next morning. Eat your favorite cereal, drink a cup of coffee, brush your teeth, and take a shower. Stare in your closet to find out what to wear and search the other pair of your socks. You also make sure that the keys, wallet, phone, and earphones are in your bag. But when you are already outside your home, you remember that you forgot something. It left you no choice but to go back inside. Fortunately, you are lucky to arrive at your work on time. Time to go home and repeat the cycle, your daily routine is just the same.
To exist is being stagnant of where you are and nothing new is happening in your life. You are just staying in your comfort zone and don’t take the risk to explore the world outside the box. The word excitement is literally a word for you because you don’t feel it anymore.
You are not making an impact to the lives of other people and your name will easily fade once you are gone.
No one will notice that you are here and nobody cares if you leave. The experiences that you have are dry and your days are just like a black and white painting, rainbows are not visiting your sky. You are working hard for your retirement but you didn’t bring good memories with you when you retired. The stories found in your book are all the same and even yourself will not bother to read it. Your life is boring.
Existing is to know that your heart is beating; living is dancing in your heart’s rhythm.
Life has many doors; don’t forbid yourself to open up each of them. Just think about it: a young man has time and energy to travel but no money, a grown-up has money and energy but no time, while an old man has money and time but no energy to explore places. It shows that you must never waste every second that you have and every chance that you get, live with no regrets. Instead of performing a never-ending routine, why don’t you go for some scenic route, take pictures with your eyes, and save it straight in your heart?
To live means you are allowing yourself to savor every moment. You let your toes feel the fine sand and enjoying the touch of the wind. Your days are not only about sleeping and waking up because you are also witnessing the sunset and sunrise. Living is appreciating the stars and wondering how many people are looking at the same star. You are happy in giving a lollipop to a little girl and helping the old man to cross the street. Your life maybe simple but it has more meaning if you connect yourself to others and look deeply into nature’s beauty.
We are living in a world that’s too big to stay in one place and yet our life is too short to do only one thing. We are not born to just pay bills and die, let’s live a life full of wanderlust.
