“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
From the moment we take our first breath, we have started on the path toward our death. In our culture, we are taught to fear our death, like it is some unnatural beast waiting in the shadows to devour us. That fear leads us to believe that it is something that we should do battle with and too much focus is put there, I think. Too many times that fear takes the place of learning the secret to truly living this precious life we are given. There are far too many people who leave this life with regrets for all the things they didn't do instead of being grateful for all the things that they did. I want to be grateful.
