How will you be?

Cemel Dosce. Know thyself.

Life teaches its hardest lessons through experiences alone - no amount of education or preparation will ever make us ready for some things. It's kind of funny how we spend so much of our lives in school, being told by other people who have spent their whole lives in school just how we should live our lives. We try to prepare ourselves for problems that won't matter, possibilities that may never occur, and eventualities that lurk beyond a horizon we never see. And in all of that, they never teach us how to truly appreciate what we've got because one day, it will be gone. They leave out how all that time spent preparing for an unknowable future will never help us figure out how to say goodbye or to let go. They will never show us how to create a memory to hold on to when life becomes rocky, instead encouraging that our time be spent studying and working while all those times we could spend with those we love just pass us by.

One day we'll look back on all of this, these times and these people. One day we'll remember these days as some of the best we had. How will you look back - with a smile for the things that happened and the memories made, or with regret for what you missed and all that was taken for granted?

Rant over.

Pax vobiscum,

- zKhristy -