We make it, but does it also make us? It makes us break and it makes us cry helplessly into our pillows at night and it makes us want to end it all and it makes us want to get away from everything and everyone and just start over and it makes us want to scream. But it also makes us laugh and it makes us smile and it makes us giggle with excitement and it makes us want to go to a huge party and it makes us want to run away with someone we love and go on an adventure and it makes us want to love and it makes us want to stay here for as long as we possibly can and it makes us jump and it makes us want to whistle. But while we're in it it makes us gossip and it makes us lie and it makes us murder and it makes us hit and it makes us hate and it makes us laugh at others and it makes us evil and it makes us corrupt and it makes us take advantage of things and it makes us jealous and it makes us compete and it makes us worried and it makes us angry. But while we're in it, it makes us listen and it makes us sympathize and it makes us compassionate and it makes us help and it makes us love so hard that you feel there is nothing else in the world but love and it makes us lead and it makes us hear and it makes us pick others up and it makes us pick ourselves up and it makes us adventurous and it makes us strong and it makes us complete and it makes us ourselves.
What is it? It is life. We all have it and we all love it even if we hate it. We are all living and we are all stuck living even if we don't want to be. So while you are living, live it up because it is truly the only life that you have and if you do not live it the way that you want, there will not be another chance. So say things that you are afraid of saying and love people that you are afraid of loving and go places you are afraid of going and take chances that you are afraid of taking and leave the place you are afraid to leave and do what makes you afraid because being afraid is not always a bad thing. Say things that will make you happy and say things that will make others happy and love the people who make you happy and explore the places that make you happy and do the hobbies that make you happy and be with the person who makes you happy. Because if you are not happy in this life, you have lost your chance. And chances were meant to be taken, not lost. Life is a privilege so do what makes your life the life that you have always wanted your life to be because it is the only life that we have.
Life makes you and you make life so make your life yours..
Thoreau said that most people live lives of quiet desperation. That's a sad state. As you said so well, we only get one life, and while we shouldn't waste it running after things of no value, we should follow our dreams. We have to account (to ourselves, at least) for the things we enjoyed and also the things that we let slip away.
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