Life Is Short?
Have you ever
heard of the phrase ‘life is too short’? It is usually accompanied with
something like ‘life is too short to be anything but happy’ or ‘life is too
short to not make the best of it’. Sometimes people will say ‘life is too short
to be moping around’ or ‘to be living in the past’. Anyway you get the point.
However, if you really stop and think about what these people are saying, you
might realize that this phrase is a complete lie. Life is not short, not in the
slightest. In fact, life is the longest thing that any of us will ever
experience. We live through life until we die and that’s it. That’s as far as
we’ll go. So why do people choose to say that life is short? I like to believe
that the reason might be because most of us live life following the rules of
society. We want to attain what society claims to be right and important and we
become so invested in doing so that we do not think of our own goals and what
really is important to us. A lot of the times I believe people realize this
when it’s a little too late. We open our eyes when we become near to death, to
the finish line of life. So we then acknowledge that we wasted all this time
trying to figure out how to fit in, how to be that person that society
considers acceptable that we forget that the important thing is to be ourselves.
To find happiness within ourselves and with what we love is what we all really
want but we are just too afraid to let that part of ourselves free and public
for the world to see. We might be afraid that people will judge us or put us
down. Therefore, we live life the way others wants us to live it. By the time
we figure out the truth that at the end of our lives nothing we did will
matter, we will feel that life is too short. All that effort in trying to fit
in with the norms of society will not even become noticed when we’re gone, so
now that we know this we feel like we need to hurry and do all of those things
we really wanted to do before our life is over. However, this still doesn't mean that life is short. I think what would be more appropriate is to say that
life is unpredictable. Throughout our life we encounter twist and turns and
while you may be having the best time of your so far living life, in an instant
things can change like the flip of a coin. Lives end, people die and at any
giving moment we can end up not seeing another day. So I believe that we must
live our lives to the fullest and make the best of it. We must do what makes us
happy and not what society thinks will make us happy. We must appreciate the
beauty of the world, the good things we encounter and learn from the bad. Learn
to see other people’s perspectives and understand that we are all human. Not
because life is short but because it is unpredictable.
-
Evelyn
Olivares (7-3-2014)
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