Live fully so that you can die with no regrets

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die any time.” -  Mark Twin. 

We people don’t discover what life is all about until just before we die. While we are young, we spend our days striving and keeping up with social expectations. We are so busy chasing life’s big pleasures that we miss out on the little ones, like dancing barefoot in the park on a rainy day with our kinds or planting a rose garden or watching the sun come up. We live in an age where we have conquered the highest of mountains but have yet to master our selves.

We have taller buildings but shorter tempers, more possessions but less happiness, fuller minds but emptier lives. Don’t wait until you are on your deathbed to realize the meaning of life and the precious role you have to play within it. All too often, people attempt to live their lives backwards, they spend their lives striving to get the things that will make them happy rather than having the wisdom to realize that happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create.

Happiness and a life of deep fulfillment come when you commit yourself, from the very core of your soul, to spending your highest human talents on a purpose that makes a difference in other lives. When all the clutter is stripped away from your life, its true meaning will become clear to live for something more than yourself. Stated simply the purpose of life is a life of purpose. As well said by Martin Luther King, Jr., “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”