Living or Existing

I was bored today and just couldn’t get my mind going in the right

direction. During lunch I logged on to Netflix and watched Wall-e. There is a line in the movie that I think sums up many of us. The Captain of the space ship says he doesn’t want to survive, he wants to live. Do you merely exist instead of live?

I think there are many times when we feel like we just go through the motions of life and don’t really live. Our existence is simply that, existing. We get out of bed, we go to work, we come home, we go to bed. Sure there are a few other things in there, but that’s what it feel like sometimes!

I wrote this week about setting and achieving goals. You life doesn’t have to feel like existing, but you have to plan for what it is you want. Then you have to be strong enough to work for it!

I heard someone say that life isn’t fair, and that’s great! If life were fair, we would all have exactly the same chance at anything. It wouldn’t matter how hard you worked or what you did; life would always balance things out. Well, thank God, that isn’t true. Life is not fair, it is a chance. Life is a chance to live, but you have to want it, it doesn’t come all by itself.

What will you choice be this next week? Will it be another week of existing, or are you going to live? The choice is yours. You just have to want it!

Here’s to You1