Maryann-Living the thing we call "Life"

Living the thing we call “Life” Every star you see in the sky is dead. By the time you see that star’s light the star has already died and all you are seeing is the light it emitted that has taken light years to reach our eyes. (So guys don’t ever compare a girl to the stars in the sky because they’re dead.) But back to the stars, we see the product of their lives. Some stars are brighter than others, some shine in different colors. But just like stars, what are we doing with our live?. What are we going to be seen as? A second will always just be a second and a minute will always be a minute but within that minute there are a sixty seconds and within those seconds there are a million infinites of numbers we haven’t yet counted. Time is a manmade idea that we’ve come up with as means of measuring; measuring our lives, the seconds it takes for the minute hand to make a full revolution, the hours that pass as you wait in line for a ride at Disneyland. Our lives are our defined by the time we live. What do we mean when we say we’ve lived 17 years? It means we’ve lived 17 years, 884 weeks, 6,188 days,148,512 hours, 8,910,720 minutes, or 534,643,200 seconds. But for how much longer will we be remembered for? Do you want to be remembered as the guy who spent his days playing video games? Or the girl who spent all morning applying make up only to wipe it off before bed? Would you prefer to be remembered as the guy or girl who made the most out of their life? What does it mean to make the most out of our life? It means that every second is an opportunity. There’s not a minute to waste in our lives. Do you want to skydive, bungee jump, or travel the world? Become an artist, play music, or engineer the structures of tomorrow? Then what are you waiting for? The reality is that we should do what makes us happy. Happiness is not defined by the number of digits in our bank accounts because the reality is those bank accounts are full of nothing. Money is just another counting unit and while happiness is not money they are correlated but that doesn’t mean you can’t be happy when all you have is a tiny cottage in the middle of nowhere. Some people are so poor that all they have is money and lack the real riches in life. Do what makes you happy because when the average lifespan is 78.7 years why should you do anything else? Why would you want to do anything else? It might seem like we went off on tangent but fear not. The reality is that if you do everything with happiness and a feeling of satisfaction anything you’ve done is the best you could possibly give to the world. The only thing that makes an ordinary person different from an extraordinary person is the love and dedication they put into their work. We’re all ordinary people who could do extraordinary deeds. That’s what people remember us for, it’s not for the numbers in our bank account or for the hours of work we got in every week it’s for what we did. Just like the stars we are appreciated for the work that we left behind that we dedicated our lives to. The work that was done to the best of our ability. I don’t care what I’m remembered as, as long as everyone can say that anything I did was with a passion because then my light will be seen from light years away.