I want to experience life
I’m so afraid to be 80 years old and regret all the things I didn’t do. But it’s so so difficult to live your true life and be your true self. To live your life creatively and with vulnerability. This is a life for the brave. And being brave, that’s not easy...
I feel like the majority of the people live inside a cloud. A cloud of pretending, one of not thinking life through. As if life just happens and we have to get through it. A life without summits, neither good nor bad. And that frightens me.
I don’t want to go ‘through’ life. I want to experience it. Every. Single. Day. I want to experience things, experience one another. Meet new people, see new places, be creative. I want to feel alive.
But living with people who clearly don’t share the same mindset, doesn’t really make it easy. Sometimes, it makes you feel like you’re weird, like you ask too much of life. Like your goals are unrealistic. It’s not easy to find someone who supports you in that and there doesn’t seem to be a clear roadmap to follow, just because every authentic life lived is so different.
It’s my goal to open up to new things more often. Draw or paint something and share it. Make a video and share it. Go to new places and share it. Go outside my comfort zone and share it. Because I no longer want to keep all the things that make me feel alive just to myself. I want to share it. And I want to meet people with the same mindset and share memories together. Because there’s a whole life ahead of us and there’s so much left to explore.
Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Brené Brown
