‘BEEEEEP’ goes that dreaded alarm clock beside your bed. It feels like only 20 minutes ago it was set… Or was it only 20 minutes?? You rush through your make up, throw on the first outfit you can find and run out the door hopefully having time to actually grab a little something for breakfast. “If only there was one more hour in the day??” you think to yourself. “If life could just slow down for once?”

You are not alone! If you are anything like me, you run a tight schedule. You rush and rush until you feel like you are rushing your life away and maybe you are.

There’s that saying, “You can sleep when you are dead.” But to me, sleeping when you can actually enjoy it is fun too. I am a victim of staying up late and getting up early to work and get stuff done (I am writing this at one in the morning, but maybe that is just a coincidence...).

Several times I have looked up and wondered how I arrived here so fast. How am I already in College? How am I almost not a teenager anymore? How can I be so grown? This almost makes me feel as if I didn’t stop and smell the roses enough or I missed out when I stayed home that one time.

But life keeps going. You cannot click pause. You cannot go back. You can only live right here in this moment and go forward. Words can’t be taken back. Decisions cannot be remade. If they could, we wouldn’t take everything so seriously.

We all need to go out and Live! We need to love more. We need to laugh more. We need to experience more. We need to stop and all smell the roses, because if we don’t one day we will really regret it and it will all be too late.