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Yesterday, I shared something about life and its Life is about balance, you can read about it here: Balance. I spoke about how we need to strike a balance with everything we do in life. Today, I would be discussing "Life is about Living".

Someone once said that we don't need to take life too seriously because we never can get out of it alive. It doesn't mean we won't do what we are expected to do, no, it only means we shouldn't take things too much to heart. I know a lot of people might give comments about why we need to take life seriously, I get it, but you will understand where I am coming from when you read the last post about balance. Let's just take it one step at a time and I promise to do justice to most aspects of life.

In as much as we are expected to give our best, do the best we can do and also be intentional about our growth, we also need to understand that we have to live. A lot of people are just existing, following the dogma approach to life. They do things as though they have been programmed to do them without having fun doing what they do. We need to inject life into the things we do and not let life pass us by.

I love sharing this quote so much and for fear of repeating it, I would simply just explain it. There was this man who never laughed or played, he never sang, he never danced or cried. One day, he died and his insurance was denied because the insurance claimed he didn't live, so how can someone who didn't live die? Don't take it literally, I am only trying to hit home a point.

Being happy, crying, laughing, having fun and doing all sorts of emotional things human do makes us feel alive. A lot of people bottle so much in and wouldn't even express themselves or take risks. I understand the need for us to be cautious (I will write about that soon too) but what's life without taking risks? Not living and merely just existing is snuffing the fun out of life. Life is about fun too and I would soon write about that too.

Most people feel life has to be hard at all times. They take things too seriously, they won't ease up and just like being forceful unnecessarily. When we take things too seriously we would surely miss out on the good things of life. Life doesn't have to be hard but our approach to life makes it hard when we choose to be rigid and complicate things unnecessarily.

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Most people have their view about life and think that's how life should be, so anything that threatens their views, they reject it and then blame others or God for what could have been dealt with in wisdom or common sense. Common sense has become so rare these days that we need to classify it as a superpower. We have to ease up on things so we can learn and understand things better. No man knows everything that's why we learn in parts so we can make sense out of everything.

Some have a stereotype kind of view that there is nothing you tell them that would make sense neither can you convince them. Maybe due to a series of bad experiences, they have held up a certain view that they make things unnecessarily hard when it doesn't have to be. I know that life responds to pressure, so we have to take life seriously and give our best but a little bit of fun, laughter, risk, flexibility, understanding, consideration or enjoyment doesn't hurt if we do then with wisdom.

Everything we go through in life shapes our experiences that's why we can be flexible and still hold on to our convictions. Being flexible gives us the ability to learn, understand why others do what they do and maybe, just maybe, we can buy into their views.

Most people just exist and do not live. They have no idea what direction their life should go and wouldn't even ask for help. They have no dreams, no goals, no purpose and just want to take life as it comes. Life is about "living" which means you are ready to contribute your part to this life. Life is the gift God has given us but what we do with it is our gift back to life. Life gives us the raw materials but we have to be the ones to manage the resources and bring out a finished product.

We don't have to watch life pass us by while we keep admiring the success of others. Success is not for a selected few but for those who can harness what they have and make it into something better. Most people, due to their lackadaisical attitude, have missed out on better, bigger and greater opportunities because they simply settled for merely existing rather than to live life to the fullest. Most people are just "there" but life is about moving beyond the average and doing things differently than others.

Living is not just about you but about the lives you touch along with way with whatever your hands find to do, honestly. It's not just about you but future generations to come.

To be continued...

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