Most times I listen and watch the stories of others and I begin to wonder and think, "What then is life"?. You see someone a few seconds or minutes ago, all happy and making beautiful plans about the next seconds or minutes of their lives, and before you blink an eye, you begin to hear painful and heart-wrenching stories about how there are some and no more in this world.
And I ask myself, " Wasn't it this person I saw and spoke with a few minutes ago?" "Didn't they say they were attending an event or going to get something in the next street or bus stop and would be back soon"? "How then are they no more?" "How did it happen"? Then you realize most horrifying stories like this don't usually have an exact story about what happened and what led to that. They always say " We don't know", "It just happened", or "We couldn't help, no matter how much we tried, we couldn't save them".
No particular, exact, or valid answer about this incident and we begin to ask ourselves, " What then is life? But honestly, life is nothing, life is short, and life is yet filled with its ups and downs but life is a vapor. Life is like a heavy wind that blows wherever and whenever it wishes to and stops when it is done and to its satisfaction.
So, I say this, life is too short, to spend it living too cautious and too nonchalant, life is too short to spend living too rigid and too soft as well, do stupid things, get embarrassed, fall in love, go through heartbeats, but never stop making memories, good or bad, it is what makes you "You". Make memories as much as you can and will be able to because these memories will make you smile for no reason on days you do not have any reason to smile, on days you are at your lowest, and on days you are broken, hurt, sad, cranky, and moody.
These memories whether good or bad will help you evaluate your past, present, and future self, no matter the kind of memories made, nobody will be able to take away the experiences and lessons learned on the journeys of making the memories, and also nobody can take them away from you, they will always be yours and only your memories to smile at your alone time or share with others for them to learn from.
