Viva la Vida!

Hope when the moment comes, you'll say

I, I did it all

I, I did it all

I owned every second that this world could give

I saw so many places the things that I did

With every broken bone, I swear I lived

One Republic - I Lived

In this world, I have often found that people will desist from doing something if they fear that they might fail. However, fear should never rule our lives. If there is anything that I have learnt in living this life, it is that we regret more the things that we didn't do than the things we did. Life is short. 

Steve Jobs once said, You can't connect the dots going forward... Nothing could be more true yet so puzzling. Nobody ever looks back at their lives and remembers the nights with plenty of sleep. Get up, get out! Go live your dreams. Do you want to get to the end of your life with regrets or do you want to come to the end of your life full of tremendous stories of the adventures you made? You will realize in your life that you will look back more fondly on the times that you overcame a difficult situation. 

So take the risk, learn how to swim, how to surf, how to ski, even how to play a musical instrument. Challenge yourself everyday. Find ways to make your ordinary days into extraordinary times. Don't let the world tell you who you are. Both Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein were considered stupid when they were growing up. Let history be the judge. Getting knocked down is a given, getting back up is a choice. Winners are not defined by the number of times that they fall, but the number of times they get back up. You my friend are a winner, not a quitter. Be the kind of person who when he dies, the world will say, 'He lived!' 'He was full of life!' Understand this comrade, Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore - André Gide

Life is either a great adventure or nothing! Said the great author Hellen Keller. We must dare to be true to our inner selves and dare to make our dreams come true, or else our lives are pointless. Death must come to us all, whether rich or poor, sad or happy, young or old, beautiful or ugly. Don't take life so seriously my friend, you won't make it out alive anyway. Ellen Degeneres once said, When you take a risk you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, both are equally important. Life is like a coin, there are so many ways that you can spend it, but you can only spend it once.

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination

- Roman Payne