To Live Before Death

Life is something that cannot be realized and fully comprehended. It is somewhat of a dream or a fictional or nonfictional story, except that you have control over everything that can be controlled. Such factors, like time and history, however, cannot be changed. What matters in life is not what is already there for you to make use of, but what you make out of life itself.

Most people do not understand the simplicity of living, and neither do they get anything out of it. To them, life is just a factor in daily events. But what they must do is to live before death.

One thing to appreciate in life is its beauties and flaws. Without wrongdoings of this world, where would be the corrections and learning? Without the negatives of life, when would humans learn to be happy and appreciate all humankind? Without a mere pang of jealousy, we would not be able to realize. Even if humans make mistakes, mistakes are often made and do not mean anything as a first impression on someone.

Life, no matter the twists and turns, will always endure and contain endless possibilities. It is one of those things, like space and time, that has no starting or ending point, but is just there. You cannot hold it your hands or cage it in a box, but it will remain the same way as it was for you to change and make change.

So all of life’s unsolved mysteries and whatnot leaves me standing to ponder over a feeling of unfulfilled regret. How many things out there are left for me, untouched, to be discovered some day later? How many paths deserted, not taken? I know that it is solely impossible to attain everything in the world, but mustn’t life be lived out to a reasonable extent? Shouldn’t we all stretch out farther than we can reach? Competition is what makes life real and sets its standards, while letting us see what it has in store for us.

Therefore, my belief is that all humans should have a lifetime goal in which they strive to meet throughout daily living; it is slightly reasonable for that goal to be set with higher than expected standards.

To live is to enjoy. We as people, with given feelings and capable of understanding ourselves, must learn to enjoy and appreciate the tiny things in life. While people are striving to meet their goals, they forget to live, rather they just survive and exist without living. People tend to put off this enjoyment of life when achieving a goal. The result of putting off enjoyment is to feel that life is wasted because it has not been fully expressed. Instead of going back to enjoyment, they continue to believe that their life has been wasted, and while that emotion is still in effect, time will seem to go by effortlessly.

That is why it is important to live before you die, and not just be a human, but live like a human.