Wake Up

So one day you wake up and you realize that you're not happy, that something's wrong. That, without a shadow of a doubt, you are living a life that you don't want to live. That maybe, probably even, you're living a life that wasn't meant to be lived by you. What do you do then? Do you just keep living that life or do you decide, right there and then, that you need to change your life? That you need to change your thinking? That you need to change your world?

Ok, sometimes things are not as simple as that. Sometimes it takes a lot more to realize you need a change. Sometimes that realization does not come swiftly and whole in one enlightened moment. Sometimes you have to feel it for a while, digest it, process it. Sometimes it takes many mornings waking up and feeling that you hate your life or simply feeling that you're not happy. That's probably the case for most of us because, after all, most of us are afraid of change. After all, life is difficult and complicated and everyone has bills to pay.

However, it doesn't truly matter how long it takes you to realize it. It can be one day or ten years, someday it just becomes so evident that you have no choice but to admit to yourself that you don't like your life. And at that point, when this knowledge starts to sink in and eventually becomes irrefutable, that is when you have to tell yourself and maybe even the world around you, "this is it. I've had enough. I will not keep living my life by someone else's rules, by someone else's expectations... I want to live a life that makes sense to me, a life that is worth living in my opinion, not yours, because at the end of the day this is my life to live".

Today is my time to say this.

So now the big question for me is: what does a life worth being lived looks like? I think that is really the big question for most of us and that maybe the answer is a little bit more simple than most of us think. I've come to believe that happiness should be like a compass guiding us in life. We should do with our lives whichever brings us the most happiness and fulfillment.  

The sad thing is, very few of us actually do this. Most of us, including myself, have become entangled in this web that represents normality in modern society. We forget to do what makes us happy and fulfilled and decide instead to sell our lives for money. We start to think that spending most of our time working in something that we're not truly interested in or passionate about is worth it because we get paid for our time. This allow us to earn and spend money in order to live mediocre, sad and comfortable lives. We do it because we have bills to pay and that is a great excuse.

The problem is that twenty years from now we will wake up one morning and realize that we've been living lives that we didn't enjoy and that time's finally running up and then it will be too late to change. We will tell ourselves, "I fell into a trap and now there is no way out..."

So let's not let that happen to us. It's time now to remember what really matters in life and money isn't it. Comfort and security aren't it either. What really matters is happiness and fulfillment and love and friendship. These are the things that should inspire our lives and that should shape the way we interact with each other and with the world. It's time to wake up.