Well another year has flown by, and this one seriously flew by. When you get to be almost 30 time seems to go by so much faster than it used to. Back when you're a kid it's funny, you're always wishing time would go by faster so you could grow up and drive a car, drink beer, smoke cigarettes, hang out with the cool kids. Then you get into your teen years and you can't wait for time to fly by so you can be 18 so you can go to the bar, buy your own beer and smokes, pull for your younger friends because their fake ID's didn't work, get a job and make some money. Then you want time to go by faster so you can get into college and learn something sweet so you can go out and make some mad money and buy anything you ever wanted. And all of a sudden you realize that time IS going by fast, and you start to think "holy shit life, SLOW DOWN!!", but it's not, life is in high gear speeding towards the inevitable cliff that is our demise. So what do you do on this ride called life? Well there's a million ways to answer that question.
I, myself, am working towards a goal I've set for myself a little less than a year ago. If you know me then you know what it is, others I'll just let you guess, but that's just one thing I'm doing. I'm doing a lot of other little things too. For instance, I'm sitting here sipping on a green tea, making a conscious effort to ween myself off of my coffee addiction and switch to something healthy. I'm also cutting down on my extra cirricular smoking, both tobacco and non tobacco products, because I only have one brain and set of lungs and they both needed a much deserved break. I'm upping my fitness regiment slightly and altering some of what I do to adapt to my aging temple I call a body, I've always said, your body is a temple, keep it in tip top shape and decorate the shit out of it. And if you know me, you know I like to keep mine colorful.
So many people take the passing of time as a bad thing and more often then not stay with what they know. They keep doing the same job because it's what they know, they start to let their dreams and aspirations fall to the wayside because they think that they're unattainable, they let themselves go physically, drink more, smoke more, eat unhealthy food just because it's what they know. I know so many people like this, they're sayers, not doers. Start being a doer. (I know that isn't grammatically correct but I don't care!!)
We've all heard of the old new year's resolution and most people make one and never stick to it. Don't look at it as a new year's resolution, look at it as a life resolution, make an effort to get out and be healthy, try and learn something new every week if not everyday, eat something different once or twice a week, you never know, you might find that you've always loved indian food, you just never knew it. Get a tattoo, learn to surf, break out of your shell, buy a mountain bike, take an acting class, read a new genre of book, do something out of your comfort zone.
So life may be going by faster than it has before and the pedal is down on the highway to the end, but you know what? I'm behind the wheel, I'm in control, and I'm going for one hell of a joyride with the stereo up, the top down and my sunglasses on. Enjoy life while you still have it, why would you wanna do anything else?
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