“This is your life, are you who you want to be”???
Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you’ve broken
Don’t close your eyes, don’t close your eyes
This is your life and today is all you’ve got now
Yeah, and today is all you’ll ever have
Don’t close your eyes
Don’t close your eyes
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, are you who you want to be
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose
So, I was listening to the radio the other night and I heard a song by Switchfoot that I’ve heard a bunch of times but I just stopped and listened to the lyrics of it. So then, I just started to think about my life. Do you ever feel like your life is just a thing to get through but your not really “living”? Or like you’re not “who you want to be”? I mean, I always hear people say “live your life to the extreme” and “live life and love every second of it.” “Life is short, love every minute of it…” stuff like that. But seriously…what exactly does that mean???
How do you really (I mean like REALLY) live your life? What’s the purpose? How do you get the most out of life? “This is your life are you who you want to be” …who do I even WANT to be? Gosh, I find that when I think about this I just have more Questions than answers.
So I think this summer, I’m going to try to dig deeper into it but for now, I think our main goal in life is to give glory to God in all we do. If God gave us our lives (which he totally did!) what’s the point of doing things that don’t give him glory? And I think one way to give him glory is just by enjoying life. Not necessarily doing “extreme things” (although that’s soooo much fun too! ), but just realizing…that the sun is shining for example, or seeing a sunset or a starry sky and just being in awe at the beauty of it. Cuz it also says in the bible that “The joy of the Lord is our strength” and I personally LOVE being happy and joyful and being around Joyful people. So I think that by just enjoying life, we have a strength that comes from God to “live to the extreme” and love life…I dunno. It’s still kinda confusing to me but…what do you think??????????????? <Is your life everything you’ve dreamed it would be?>
thanks for reading!
<♥always~Ella>
great post and blog! Its always exciting reading other peoples thoughts on their journey. You asked a great question, “How do you really live your life.” I don’t think you can’t live your life, no matter what you or don’t do. In the end the experiences you had are your life. What it comes down to me is am I pursuing my dreams, my passions. If I’m not, I need to ask myself why not? What am I scared of? So many people live in fear that don’t live the life they really want to live. I just know what I’m passionate about and go for it, so I know I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing. Of course those are those times where I had no clue and maybe will have them in the future too, but I’d rather just go with the flow of my heart then be in the quicksand of fear, slowly taking me down.
Comment by mikewalzman — December 2, 2008 @ 4:51 am