Am I Truly Living

Think back to being a child, fighting so hard for responsibility. Now think forward to a day when your body fails your mind and you return to something like infancy — but with your whole life behind you.

Now look at your life  today, and ask yourself:

• Are you embracing the responsibility you once fought so hard for?
• Are you spending enough time building a confident, consistent circle around you — or are you taking the seconds, minutes, and hours for granted?
• Are you all the possibilities you once dreamed you’d be?
• Do you wake up, set goals, and act on them?
• Have you become admired by the people you once admired?
• Do you see everything that could go wrong, or everything that could go right?
• Do you tell yourself that people naturally lie, or that people are naturally honest?
• How many nights do you go to bed replaying everything that went wrong — or could have?
• Do you find yourself agreeing with the people complaining about the world, and disagreeing with the person trying to change it?
• Do you believe we need evil to recognize good — or do you feel what good feels like and naturally strive to continue it?
• Do you think doing good quietly is the only “real” good, or that talking about it encourages others to do good too?
• When you see a wrong being done, do you look away — or do you call it out, even at a risk to yourself?
• Are you honest even when the consequences get more severe?
• Do you work to be someone others consider fair, or someone you feel good about being?
• Do you look a person in the eyes and wonder what they think of you, or what you think of them?
• When it comes to looks, are you harder on your own sex or the opposite?
• When someone does something better than you, do you feel joy for them, or sadness because you feel smaller?
• Do you find yourself saying “I don’t know” more than yes or no?

Ask yourself, Am I truly living?

The LoveSnobs