Difference Between Those Who Appreciate Life And Those Who Don't

What is existence? How could we know we really exist? Well, mathematically, we shouldn't exist. In fact we couldn't even know whether we are really exist or other's existence are the same as our existence.

You shouldn't be alive, you shouldn't exist. yet there will always be a lottery winner. And like most lottery winner, you are probably wasting your winnings. We were given the most valuable things, free mind, body, time, space, intelligence, life.

And yet we're always wasting them, we never worry about money, about anything until the resources start to run dry. It's the same as us, we never worry about our life, until we realize how quickly our time is running out.

When we realize then, usually it'll be too late. Wasting your life shows how unappreciative you are, You were given the most valuable things yet you just squander it away. You are not appreciating the life you are given. 

But on contrary, there will always be those who appreciate life, and they greatly differs from those who don't. 

They don't work jobs they hate 

Hating your job, is to hate the time you spend doing that job. Or in another words, to hate spending your precious time. At some point in our lives, we all have to do things we are not comfortable doing, and it'll happen very often.

That doesn't mean that we have to continuously convince ourselves every day what we do are really making any sense. Remember that we're not doing those jobs 365 days, and we could do many other positive and interesting things. 

They don't befriend people that are bad for them

While it's good to befriend people as much as we can, unfortunately most of these people do not add as much as they takes from our lives. If you think logically, why should we even befriend them? Why do we even befriend someone who in the end are going to leave us disappointed? 

What I mean here is you're not completely un-befriending them but you keep your distance from them, you don't let them influence you into something terrible and bad. Don't make people thing you're some kind of anti-social freaks.

Well, this is not to say that they're necessarily bad, it's just, it's not a good addition into your life. Respect your life and leave them out of it. 

They have their priorities straight

This is probably the most difficult concept to understand and comprehend because the answer differs from one person to another thus making it not having a universal answer. But there is indeed a universal guidelines. But basically you have to understand what's important and what's not.

Life, love, and goodness are the guidelines. How you add to those is up to you. 

They don't take lives of others for granted

Don't only appreciate your life, but appreciate what life is. Which means to appreciate lives of those around you, whether it's a living creature, humans, plants and animals. 

Be grateful of your life. To appreciate a life is to appreciate the life itself.  

They never waste a single day

Like what Bruce Lee quoted,

"If you love your life, don't waste your time, for time is what life is made up of.".

Time is what fuels life. If we run out of it, our life ends (we die). Your time in this world ends. All your hope and dreams, all the things you want to do, all the people you want to meet, all the things you want to accomplish, everything comes to an end.

Those who understand this, do not let themselves live a single day in their life with regret of not fully living it.

They look back, but they are not living in the past

All the things that we had lived through are important to remember. They are filled with life lessons as well as pleasant memories. There's always something to look back to, to make us remember how hard we fall or how hard we try to achieve that little success in our life.

Our past should never be forgotten, but at the same time we shouldn't be spending too much time looking back with disappointment and sadness. We do not have the time for regrets. What was, was and no longer is.

They live in more than one pace

You shouldn't live in one single fashion, following one life motto and purpose. Living fast and dying young sounds fun and challenging, while living slow and meditation sounds peaceful as well as boring. You can't experience those two with just one pace of life.

If you want to experience all that life have to offer, you have to live in both extremes, fast and slow, creating your very own balance. Only by doing so, that you'll be able to get the whole picture.

They understand how amazing they are, and they truly love themselves.

How could you not love yourself? Loving yourself means you are also loving life, because you yourselves are life itself. Realize how amazing you are, how many times have you hit the ground but still manage to stand up.

We are gifted beings, with free mind and soul that we can become everything we want to be. If you happen to not loving your current selves (in terms if you are bad now), don't be afraid of changes, be the person you will love, the person you were supposed to be.

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