Your Flowers Are Dying and So Are You.

To be jaded by youth is a beautiful thing.  It’s hopes, dreams, and a whole life that awaits for you to create it.  Now, you don’t have to be young to catch this fiery spirit, but it is more predominant in teenagers and young adults…proven fact.  Some say because youth are naïve and have no idea about the reality that will soon come to them.  But I prefer to look at it in a different way.  I prefer to see it as an opportunity, simply by the outlook you take in life.  Young kids are more willing take a chance, a leap of faith, without hesitation.
 As people get older, responsibility starts to become an excuse to forget excitement, to forget how to enjoy yourself properly and make opportunities to enrich your life. Cleaning the house, taking care of the kids (if you have any), doing laundry, going to the dentist, getting groceries, working the 9 to 5, planning dinner, feeding the dog, getting an oil change, and the list goes on and on. 

Where in that list does it say “get excited about something new in your life?”  Nowhere.  Life becomes a list of chores and everyone forgets to enjoy anything, much less be excited about it.  Granted that these everyday tasks are unavoidable, it is no excuse for your lack of enthusiasm.  It’s called: STOP BEING LAZY.

You know that one night you have free? And all you want to do is stay home?  Yes, you’ve been staying extra late at work. Yes, you hardly get any sleep.  Yes, the flowers in the vase by your window are wilting—but what you don’t realize, is that those flowers aren’t the only thing expiring, so is your spirit.  And that is dangerous territory to contend with.  Do not go there.

So let’s make a solution. When an old friend calls you last minute to go to some dive bar—that probably smells like piss and musty walls—GO.  Even if you don’t want to.  Perhaps that one night will turn out to be the best night you had in awhile.  Maybe even all year.  After all, the best nights are the ones you don’t plan all the way through.

Where am I going with all this?  People do not make enough of an effort to enjoy their lives, and push themselves to do things that will make them happier people. 

The unexpected is all around us—we just have to expose ourselves to it, to reap its benefits.