"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." -Oscar Wilde

Do you ever just think about life and people and the world and the mere fact that we actually exist? Do you ever take the time to look at the stars at night and remember how there is an entire universe out there and it's full of people? People with their own lives and their own mindsets, who have their own plan for tomorrow and their own concepts of what life really means. Do you ever look at someone who is talking to you and wonder if they actually remember to live their life every day or are they forgetting to do that like the rest of us?

Maybe you don't sit and think about these things because you've just got a lot on your plate right now or maybe you don't because you think you've got it all figured out. But what if it's just because maybe you've forgotten what living really means too.

Ironically, we live in a world where we don't ever remember to live. "You're born, you live, then you die." Although, this might be said a lot and we constantly hear people telling you to just "live your life" and "life is too short", nobody really cares about what that means. What is the living part even mean? We're supposed to make the best and the most of the time we have here, but what do we think that means? It's almost like we have an instruction manual for how to live life and we're just doing our best to follow it. Going to school, learning things that the world deems important to learn, finding someone to spend your time with and following a certain protocol and time schedule in life with them, due to what the "norms" of life are. Falling in love and not wanting it to go too fast or too slow because your friends are giving you advice about it from what they've read in books and seen in movies where every story is all one way. When do we ever live our lives according to just what we want out of our lives?

Do you want success in life and if so, what do you want to be successful doing? Do you want to travel the world and see everything there is to see and if so, where is your trip going to start? Do you want to spend your life just existing? If not, just start living.

We all think we have such a good grasp on "living life to the fullest", but we don't at all, not even a little bit. We confuse moving forward from one thing to the next and letting things roll off our shoulders, with actually enjoying the life we have. It's when you start doing everything you want to do because you're alive and you can. It's when you take you that time to look at the stars at night and think about the universe, how big it is, and all the people just "existing" in it, that you start to think about how there is much more to life than just going by the book. It's when you find something unconventional that you absolutely love to do and you keep doing it, despite what anyone else thinks of it because it's your life and it's what gives you joy and happiness. It's the time you spend outside, living in the life, instead of sitting inside, watching someone else to do on a television screen. It's when you can look at your life and find all that gives you happiness in it and capitalize on those things, so that all it is, is happiness. Ah, a life full of happiness. It seems so unachievable, but we only make it seem that way.

There is a sort of unwritten manual for life programmed inside all of us. This is good, this is bad. This is smart, this is stupid. This is pretty, this is ugly. Well, this is all life. And we really have to wake up from it and start taking advantage of everything there is to do in it. The structural way we go about life keeps us so limited. It's almost like playing in the world's biggest arcade, but we only stick to the two games in the corner because we know other people that have won at them, so we can too. We're just too blinded by what the step by step life process has been for so many years, that we're afraid to make a new one. Well, we can't be. We can't be because life should never be lived that way.

Death should be your greatest inspiration. Whether you're spiritual or not, if there is something after this life for you or there isn't, the idea of dying shouldn't scare you. But, it does. It scares all of us. We're scared to die tomorrow because of all of those things we wish we would've done, what we wish we would've become, the people we wish we would've said sorry or I love you too. So, do it. Drop the worry and the paperwork you have and go do it. You can't be afraid to die, but more importantly, you can't be afraid to live.

Imagine how happy we'd be if we could start today and change that?