The beginning...

Lately, I've been feeling like there are so many things out there I could be learning and doing and dreaming and wishing and thinking about and talking about and sharing and loving and regretting and enjoying. So many things out there that I'm not doing, that I could be doing, that could make me happier.

because that's the point, for me at least.
the point of my life is to be content and enjoy the way things are, and to help others find that in themselves too.

There is a quote by Carl Sagan that I absolutely adore. It could be sad, but it also could be hopeful too.

we are like butterflies
who flutter for a day
and think it is forever.
- carl sagan

We think we have so much time on Earth because none of us have ever experience death, none of us know what it is like not to be alive. And in the human sort of way, we do have a lot of time. Our society is built around only having 90 years to live, so in that way we have tons of opportunities to fulfill our dreams. However, in the grand scheme of things, each of our lives is less than a blink of an eye, a great cosmic energy that opens and closes in the relative way that everything does.

That doesn't make me sad. I think dying is the point, because if we didn't die, there wouldn't be much of a reason to make your life meaningful, for yourself or for others.

I have 70 or so years (could be much shorter, or longer) to live on this Earth. I have 70 years to make someone smile, to be someone's favourite person, to be someone's reason to wake up in the morning; a reason to dream and think and create and inspire.

I feel like this is only the beginning.