You are spending your life

The frightening thing about life is that you never notice it running out.

It disappears invisibly.

One ordinary Monday at a time.

One more excuse.

One more year waiting until you’re ready.

You think you’re killing time.

Time is killing much more.

Your youth.

Days that could have been spent with the people you care about.

Your chance to become the person you were capable of becoming.

One day you’ll look at an old photograph and think,

“Where did those years go?”

The answer is brutal.

They became the days you assumed didn’t matter.

The ordinary days.

The wasted evenings.

The dreams postponed.

The conversations avoided.

The risks you never took.

Life wasn’t stolen from you.

It was exchanged for comfort.

For distraction.

For “later.”

Which brings us to today’s lesson.

Stop treating your days as if they are replaceable.

Every day you postpone the life you want is one less day you will ever get to live it.

So let your lungs burn with exhaustion until the water tastes like heavens elixir.

Tell your family you love them.

Don’t wait until tomorrow.

Because one day, without asking your permission, life will hand you a final ordinary day.

You won’t recognize it.

You’ll think it’s just another day.

Then it will be gone forever.