Life is a verb. It's about what we do. It is an action, forward motion, forward progression toward a desired destination. At any given moment, you could be living for a better job, living for a better relationship with lost friends, living for a lost opportunity to have kids with the man you love, living for the moment when you might hear your boyfriend say "I love you" for the first time.
I once read that you had to identify what you want, plan out how to get, then the hardest part--do it! Life is identifying your wants, figuring out how to get them, and then doing something about it.
And the thing that just is befuddles me is our expectations. It should be easier to DO IT, whatever we decide IT to be as we get older. My mom said it best. "I think it's harder. The stakes are higher. You have more to loose."
Life is both your choice and how you decide to live it. And it's not like a train that makes stops. I heard this great quote in a movie once that sums up my point. "This is your life- it doesn't wait for you to get back on your feet." We sometimes get derailed, stalled, and have to slam on the breaks when something unexpected is in our way, preventing us from moving forward.
It makes that choice to live and progress a longer thought process, at least it is for me. You think about it longer. You wait. You waste precious time. You try to convince yourself that it will be ok if it does not go according to your hopes or plans. But really, rarely does live ever go as planned. You can hope. But at some point you will have to close your eyes and act. Take a leap and put yourself out there, working toward your goal.
Then comes gravity and all it's infinite weight and density. The gravity of action. The gravity of a feared result. Gravity of the real possibility that the happy ending really won't be happy or the end at all. Sometimes the choices we make, the actions we take, lead to the dead end of the train tracks. There is no where to go in sight. You have to make a path. And you have no idea where to begin.
It's about follow-through. This is your life. And no one is going to fight for it except for you.
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