"Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all."

"Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all."

• Posted by Create Abundance Int'l Community 

Have you done something so radical that it made you realize that you’re alive?

When I was young, I loved talking to people who were older than me. I loved telling them my dreams, my fantasies, even the things that I wanted for the world. When my childhood friends and I played, we always made up stories about who we will be in the future. Of course we didn’t want to be nobody. We didn’t even think that we’d be working as employees. We didn’t dream of working as telephone operators, or secretaries, or assistants. We aimed for something higher. We always did. We were unstoppable. That was how we saw life.

That was before we knew what the corporate world was.

Now, every single time we meet. I don’t see the faces they once had. They are not happy with their jobs. They’re not happy with their salary. They’re not happy with their bosses. They’re not happy, literally. They keep complaining about things. They keep blaming people for the things that they were not able to get. They were my friends. They weren’t just withering physically. Their vigor for life died as well. It seems like I don’t know them anymore.

How can you tell if you’re living or merely existing? Answer these questions honestly. Reflect on your responses and you’ll find the answer from within.

What is my biggest dream? Did I change the size of my dream so it can be “realistic”?

Is what I am doing now contributing to my dream? Do I feel like I’m just deceiving myself when I say that it is?

Whose life am I living anyway? Am I just meeting someone’s expectation? Or am I doing what I want to do?

Am I happy? Am I really happy? Can I declare to the world that I’m happy with what I’m doing? Can I declare to the world that I’m happy with my life?

Am I ready to die tomorrow?

A warrior never gives up something he loves. He will die, but his legacy will live on. Instead of thinking about what the world has in store for us, why not focus on what WE have in store for the world?