You know in life sometimes you just kind of go through the motions, never really take a second to realize what is really going on or happening around you? I do, and I am sure most people do too, we all do it all the time.
The older I have gotten and the more things I have had to do on my own has made me realize all that has gone on in my life. The funny thing is it is usually the smaller things that stick with me the most, like before every basketball game, my senior year, and the five starters would go and sing pitch perfect songs and play zoomi zoomi to get hyped before warmups. Or the time when my roommate brought me a sprite, soup, and medicine to me in bed when I was sick. At the time these memories did not seem like a big deal, but they are things that I will remember for the rest of my life.
People sometimes forget to take a step back and look at how beautiful it really is. Sometimes people take life for granted and do not realize how all these little things in life will end up being the big things that actually matter. Sometimes people are so caught up in what happened yesterday or last week and do not notice what is happening in the moment. I have learned to live a life day by day because things in the past have already ended and the things in the future have not happened yet.
I have learned to take risks even if it does not go in my favor, because if I did not I would not know the end result. I have learned to accept my faults and forgive others because life is too short. I have learned to always look at the positives in every situation and every single person because life is much more fun being happy. I have learned to accept that life is not always going to go the way I thought it would and that God has a plan on how my life will be in the end. I have learned that life is a beautiful thing and if I do not live in the moment I will not live life to the very fullest. I want to live MY life to the very best ability because life is a privilege and it is a beautiful privilege to have.
