Enjoy life because it is short
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I am an expert at putting off stuff for a later time. I know I must get up and just start, but this is so hard I often just give up. Procrastination is a terrible thing! It is cumulative. At first you delay one small thing, then another, and before long you are so far…
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Nothing stays the same. Everything constantly changes in one way or another. Once I was shaken by how similar my days were, how boring and depressing my life have become. It turned out that I changed and was actually suffering from depression! Nothing is ever what it seems, and everything evolves and transforms while you…
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First love, the one that got away. I know! Cliche! But so very true for many. Sometimes the end of a first love is a good and necessary thing because it leads to emotional growth. Such an experience makes us better, more experienced! There is no growth without pain, and pain leads to gain. So…
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As I write this I have no desire to get up and do something exciting, yet I know that I must. To have an interesting and exciting life we must do interesting and exciting things. Even though my poem suggests we must use every second to be alive, being alive also includes being still. I…
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I am in South Africa visiting friends and family. On day one I did not think I can stay here the planned three weeks. Day two I felt better and then became depressed again when I saw my hometown. It is in a terrible state, the roads are awful, traffic lights do not work and…
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I am curious if the human race was able to achieve all it has simply because humans are never satisfied with what they have or know. Do a thing and later regret it, or don’t do it at all, and always wonder what could have been. Before the internet made access to everything possible, people…
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I went for a walk on the hottest day of the year, so far. 96 Fahrenheit, 36 Celsius. Hot no matter how you measure it. As my feet competed to be in front my mind wandered, and I found myself thinking about an upcoming trip to South Africa. We left there at the start of…
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