So, yesterday we lost a sports hero at the age of 41. Families of the victims lost even more. Now, timelines on social media platforms are flooded with condolences, shock, sorrow, and motivational memes. Sadly, these same people who are all for stating “life is short”, spend time with the ones you love, you never know when your time is up, and other similar sayings will go back to their regularly scheduled programming in 3-5 days. Back to following the lives of people who don’t know they exist, back to spending countless unproductive hours with their faces stuck in a T.V, phone, or tablet, back to putting off what they should be doing with their precious time. Living their lives as if there is no expiration date instead of living not only as if there is one but acknowledging the date is unknown.
I hate that we (the masses) as a group have the attention span of a 5-year-old child. Have you noticed how a 5-year-old, no matter what the experience, be it bad or good seems to wake up with a restart button being pushed? They seem to have no recollection of what happened, what their part in it was, if it was bad or good, they just start over at some restore point like a computer. No ability to experience something and have that be the catalyst for the betterment of the rest of their lives or at least the next couple of years. I know you may be saying but Drills, they’re 5-years-old they shouldn’t be able to do this. I say yes, you are correct, but we should.
The problem is we don’t. We live in the day for the day. We then start all over again. Back to putting those things we want to do under “tomorrow” on our “to-do” list. The thing is “tomorrow” never comes. Unfortunately, for some, another “today” doesn’t either. How bold of us to throw all our plans into a future we don’t know we have. How can people with such little belief in their current selves have so much confidence in this future them that is not only a bold psychic like they are but, has the dedication and skill to act and complete all plans that the present them has made for the future them? I have no clue, but the masses believe. The future must be full of go-getting doers, huh? Well, the truth is the only thing different about that future you if you get there is your age.
That future you is the same bold psychic adding to the “to-do” you started. I don’t mean to be dark or semi-pessimistic, but I think we lie to ourselves too much and when a public tragedy occurs, we temporarily snap out of our lull and remember how precious this life of ours is. Let’s not forget the private tragedies that do the same. We get enough reminders to do what we should be doing but somehow still lean to the “refuse to do it” side. What is the issue?
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Reminders like this blog help. Tragedies and lives being cut short will help. These are only temporary fixes. How can we wake ourselves up permanently? This question is pretty hard to answer. I’m hoping we don’t require tragedies both public and private to pepper our lives. Whether you feel do or you feel you don’t, you’ll get the tragedies either way. They haven’t done the trick so far. What else can we do? What stops us from living our lives the way we want? Fear. We fear failing. We fear succeeding. We fear living. We fear dying. Reading those sentences, people living the paralyzed life I described in the opening makes a lot more sense now. The answer to what the issue always rests in us investigating this thing we call fear. We are not dumb people. If you are reading blogs, watching videos, trying to do better, acknowledging flaws, and somehow still falling short, it’s not your lack of smarts. It’s something that makes a sane adult choose a detrimental action over a beneficial one. That is what fear is. It is your job to discover what fear is making you do and stop it or what fear is stopping you from doing and doing it.
In closing, yes, life is short. It’s short not because of the time we get but because of the indeterminate amount of time we get. Stop living in the day for the day and start living “your” life, every day. “Your” life meaning what you desire your life to be. No more adding to the “to-do” that never gets to “done.” Of course, I realize you cannot complete everything you want to do in life in one day, but you can work towards it every day. You can book that trip and make it real. You can incorporate that business. You can get your credit together, save, live on a tight budget for a while so you can quit that going-nowhere job. You can choose to spend more time with your loved ones. You can choose to stop making every excuse in the world for yourself. You can look fear in the eyes because life is short, and you have no idea how scared fear is of you. Please don’t allow it to stay a secret.
Food for thought…You do the dishes.
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