When does life start?
When I was in college, studying Business Management in University of the Philippines, I often hear people tell me, study hard so when you face real life after you graduate you will be ready. Right then and there I started questioning, “If real life is after my graduation what is now?”, “Am I only existing and not living now?”
After so many days, months, even years of pondering, I finally know the answer to the question: When does life start? And the answer is always, NOW!
If we work hard for the future, we should never forget that real life is not after graduation, not after turning 40
years old! No, Life is always NOW!
LIFE IS PRESENT AS LONG AS WE ARE BREATHING, every second, no matter our age! LIFE is always NOW!
We are often too hooked up on the fantasy of the future that we forget how to live in the present. Hence, the term, existing but not living! 🥺 The reason for this? We feel, rather, society makes us feel like our lives are not enough now and that life eventually starts when we meet the standards of society on how life should be. BUT guess what? WE get to decide how we want to live OUR lives. Not being able to live by the standards of society does not mean we are not living life. Only we get to decide how life should be, babe !!! And life started the moment we breathed.
The moment I made it clear to myself that life is now, I became the happiest Cum Laude graduate and now the happiest entrepreneur. As a 23-year old, as a woman, as an ordinary person named
Goldy, I’m proud to say that I’m living and not just existing! 🥰🥰🥰