All Philosophic on How to Live

The twists and turns we experience in life make it just that…life. What plan or path we choose to follow makes all the difference in the life we’re granted to live each day. On most mornings we wake up to the expected normalcy that we have come so accustomed to in life. Then, based on our decision making, our choices, our individual actions and reactions to events happening around, us we experience the day. By the end of that day, we lay our head on our pillows knowing that, generally, we’ll wake to the normalcy we have generated and expect.

On those occasional days that our actions or reactions result in dramatic change, we go to bed knowing that nothing will feel the same way it has in the recent past. These days can be looked upon with excitement. Conversely they can be looked on with angst. Not all change is change for the better, but sometimes it is this inevitable adjustment and readjustment that we have to go through in order to maintain some semblance of what life is meant to be.

Mistakes get made. That’s life. For example, in the movie, “Meet Joe Black,” Anthony Hopkin’s character, William Parrish, addresses the importance of having taken the risk to love in life:

I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived.

Risks, like leaping on faith to love, change the paths we’re on. They shake us. Make us think twice. Make us embrace decisions or wonder and worry.

Decisions with risk mean laying your head down at the end of the day knowing tomorrow may not bring normalcy. You may wake feeling completely alone or you may feel untold happiness. Either way, you won’t know if you don’t take those risks and really LIVE the life you’ve been granted.

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