It seems as though you never get ahead. Even when you think and feel like you are getting ahead in your life, something comes barreling at you full speed. It seems as though it is the way of life that your work is never done. You never get enough time on this earth to finish what you would want to do on this earth. Even if you lived to be over 90, I am sure you could still have a list of things that you wish you could or would have done. It seems as though the world offers so many things with so little time to complete them. All we can do is make the best of the time that we are given.

I want to remind you that you don’t always get to live a long and happy life. Sometimes very suddenly your time is up. When it’s your time, you go. Even if you are 12 and living the best years of your life with even more ahead of you, you go. You can’t ever take a single second for granted. You need to spend every moment like you know it is your last. You need to spend all of your time doing things you love with people you love. I can’t stress it enough.

Even if you have been given a short time left on this earth or you have gotten bad health news, you need to live your life. Don’t let anything stop you from trying something new or doing something that you love. Just because you have a limited time doesn’t mean you should have a limited life. Even if it is as simple as running through a summer rain storm, do it. If you want to travel to a new and exotic country, do it. Don’t limit your life based on a thing like time. You need to be selfish in your life before you can be selfless.

If you aren’t living your life to the fullest, you can’t expect to be able to help others. "You can’t fill up other people’s cups if your own is empty.” You need to take care of yourself and maintain your own happiness first before you can help others. People will try to make you change your mind or tell you to be more practical about your life choices. But you need to remember whose life that it is. You need to put yourself first always. You need to keep yourself happy and then you can spread your happiness to others. Other people will do the same to you and help you maintain your own happiness.

Sometimes it seems like life is such a struggle and that you never have enough time to do half of the things that you need to do, let alone want to do. Just remember, you control your own happiness. Use your limited time on earth to do all of the things that make you happy. Whether you have a year left or 50 years left, live your life without limits.