I know that this has no real place on this site, with all types of luck it will last a day without being cut out of Fiction Press. What this is is a request to everyone who feels like reading this. These past few years I have studied so many different philosophy and have watched the actions of so many people that I have come to a discovery that if things keep going the way they are then no one will be happy in the future. What I'm giving is my views on life, how I live from day to day. Don't tell me I am pretending to be a Saint, a God, a Priest or any sort of thing like that, because I am not trying to do that. I hope someone can benefit from this.

Try to live each today

In a way that if you died tomorrow

You would not regret that tomorrow's yesterday.

That is, make each moment worthwhile, be spontaneous.

Even in situations where it seems hopeless, find your joy in whatever you can

Because if you die tomorrow, what kind of today are you leaving behind?

For example, all of you who work each waking moment, is that what you want to die doing? If you spend your whole life preparing to live, then you never can really live, can you? Instead of spending your time hurrying from one important, unpleasant thing to another, maybe find something that you enjoy and spend a couple moments each day doing that. Maybe even find some way to enjoy working. Then work won't be work anymore, it will be play. Imagine a life where all you do is play, and lo and behold you are rewarded for it. Praise Mako! (No I'm kidding)

Another example, all of you who spend each moment in deep and unproductive misery. You who live vicariously through the pain of your past. So obsessed with your own problems that not only can you not move on, but you take others with you. Stop and think about what you have, not what you had. I guarantee that you will find that there are still things to laugh about in life, still things that matter and still people who care about you.

An offshoot of the last group is the branch of people who live through their rage. This passage will not be able to reach them; to live through rage is to be in a place where it is almost impossible to return from. The reality is that this last passage is for those who suffer the rage of others. Just remember love, love is, oddly, the thing that will end rage one day. Not before I'm looooong dead of course, but, with any luck, before the species of humans destroy themselves.

DISCLAIMER:

I am glad you managed to read this far. I do not ask for you to really remember any of this, but if you want to, if this helped you, then tell me. On the other hand, if you hate me for what I'm saying here, if I just wasted five minutes of your time, tell me as well. I can't hate you for opinions; if I did then I'd be a hypocrite.