Philosophical Doodlemaboop
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saladloveJust a thing. Might not make any sense, but, hey, that's okay. It had just been on my mind since like Saturday, and I felt like actually putting it to words. As a result, it's a bit scatterbrained (like me! :D)
Either way, enyoy this if you wish. Or just read it. Or don't enyoy it. Or hate it. Doesn't make a lick of difference to me.
You’re never more than an instant from death. Everyone spends seconds wondering “what would it be like if ____ happened instead?” and, it’s a good question. Anything could. You could have changed the course of your entire life by hesitating even just a milisecond. You never really notice until you get put into the situation where you’ve taken a step back on instinct and watched it happen. You were about to cross the street with a group of friends without looking both ways. You hesitate just for a split second, and right before your eyes, a drunk driver speeds through a red light, driving right over the point in the crosswalk where you would have been standing if you hadn’t had that sudden insight and hesitated. No one really knows why someone might do it, but the event happens, and it opens your eyes.
You were a moment, a pause, a single step from every single moment of your life changed. It’s a vulnerable feeling, knowing anything different ever in your life, and it might not have happened that way. You might think “anything could kill me… any action, anything.” And it’s true. Even you reading this, it’s changed your life, maybe for the better, maybe for the worse. You could have a longer life after reading, you might die sooner than later, nobody knows. And it’s only those “I was that close to dying then and there” moments that truly open our eyes and make us think about it. You choosing Cocoa Puffs over Cheerios for breakfast this morning could have changed everything. You decide to stand up and walk to the door before class ends rather than wait at your desk like you usually do. You run to your second period class to give your friend a surprise birthday gift on their desk instead of taking your time and hanging around with friends for a few minutes. It could all change the entire course of your life.
So, choose. It’s always a choice. Whether it be split-second, instinctual decision making, or a long, drawn out, insightful thought process, just know, no matter what choice you make, make the one that will be the one you will never regret. Live your life in the moment, because who cares what the next will be like, seeing as you won’t be here. Live now, not the past, the unchanging, not the future you might not have, only for each passing second.
The seconds pass, but, are you going to let all of this go to your head? You could, but it might have mixed results….
Good luck.
Either way, enyoy this if you wish. Or just read it. Or don't enyoy it. Or hate it. Doesn't make a lick of difference to me.
You’re never more than an instant from death. Everyone spends seconds wondering “what would it be like if ____ happened instead?” and, it’s a good question. Anything could. You could have changed the course of your entire life by hesitating even just a milisecond. You never really notice until you get put into the situation where you’ve taken a step back on instinct and watched it happen. You were about to cross the street with a group of friends without looking both ways. You hesitate just for a split second, and right before your eyes, a drunk driver speeds through a red light, driving right over the point in the crosswalk where you would have been standing if you hadn’t had that sudden insight and hesitated. No one really knows why someone might do it, but the event happens, and it opens your eyes.
You were a moment, a pause, a single step from every single moment of your life changed. It’s a vulnerable feeling, knowing anything different ever in your life, and it might not have happened that way. You might think “anything could kill me… any action, anything.” And it’s true. Even you reading this, it’s changed your life, maybe for the better, maybe for the worse. You could have a longer life after reading, you might die sooner than later, nobody knows. And it’s only those “I was that close to dying then and there” moments that truly open our eyes and make us think about it. You choosing Cocoa Puffs over Cheerios for breakfast this morning could have changed everything. You decide to stand up and walk to the door before class ends rather than wait at your desk like you usually do. You run to your second period class to give your friend a surprise birthday gift on their desk instead of taking your time and hanging around with friends for a few minutes. It could all change the entire course of your life.
So, choose. It’s always a choice. Whether it be split-second, instinctual decision making, or a long, drawn out, insightful thought process, just know, no matter what choice you make, make the one that will be the one you will never regret. Live your life in the moment, because who cares what the next will be like, seeing as you won’t be here. Live now, not the past, the unchanging, not the future you might not have, only for each passing second.
The seconds pass, but, are you going to let all of this go to your head? You could, but it might have mixed results….
Good luck.
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