You Survived? Good job. Now Live!

in life •  7 years ago 

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The differentiation line between surviving and living is only thin in dictionaries, when talking reality, it comes large. What makes the huge difference is what deliberate actions and sanctions you choose to initiate to change the current status.

There are many stages of life, and one stage completed, launches you into the other. You can choose to stay put in a particular stage, and grow only by age, or you can choose to let yourself grow out of it into another. You can even shorten the span of a stage, or you can just let things play out.

Surviving is one of these stages. It leads to the living stage. The survival stage is more like the luck/miracle stage, where you made it through a situation you could not help, or that others couldn't make it through. This is the stage where you catch your breadth and rejoice. It brings the cool feeling of lightness and calm.

To some people, the survival stage is an inspiration to explore their strengths and aspire all the more. But unsurprisingly, others get too comfortable in this stage that they forget to grow out of it. They stay in there grateful that they at least have life and they are not in a bad situation. When you are in this state, you may not be sensitive to the fact that not being in a bad situation does not mean you're living, in the true sense of the word.

This is not to say that the survival stage is such a bad one to stay in. There are other underrated stages, and it is important to know the difference. Let's simplify this by illustrating thus:
everyone breathes, everyone exists, everyone has survived, but not everyone is living.

Between living and not dying is a long bench. This means that, because you are not dead might not directly have to mean you are living. It will be fair to say here that death is not the opposite of life. The opposite of life could be unfulfillment, frustration, purposelessness, and the likes. This is because, there are times and situations that death becomes a luxury. To live, you have to take the bull of life by its horn.

You know how when you're being bullied by a life situation and you keep running away, the moment you choose to stand up to it changes everything, a new stronger you emerges and that situation loses its grip on you? It is the same way life has to be handled. It throws stones at you, you dodge for a while, and then you pick up the stones and build yourself a fence.

When you keep growing from strength to strength and making the best of situations, life eventually gives way, and lets you live. Challenges will persist, but at this level, it is either your defences are too strong for them to stay, or they are now just too little to get your attention so they melt away.

If you show life you're scared of it, it makes your existence its playground. I don't believe there is anyone too weak or feeble to bounce life, you just need to believe in yourself, want it more than you fear it, and put the right attitude to work.

You know you're making progress when if situations show up, you stare them in the face, then smile soothingly. At this point, fear, weakness, and every other negativity lose their place in the options available.

Whether it appears good or bad, life is meant to be lived, and this happens when you have made some sacrifices that qualify you to enjoy your living experience.

It is no longer enough to wake up in the morning. If you do not have any form of satisfaction, fulfillment, or desire for a better levelled lifestyle, then there might be a need to review your current life stage. Get to the point where when life throws lemons at you, you make yourself a fine lemonade, or better still, a lemon cake with cream cheese frosting!

Life does not have favourites, it only acknowledges strengths and weaknesses. My suggestion now is:

By any means necessary, survive. But by all means possible, LIVE!
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  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

I looked it out, but couldn't understand how it works

what you convey is very useful. I really want to be able to write like you. please get directions.

Thanks @shuazhari. People gain inspirations differently. I suggest you pay more attention to the things that inspire you and you want to write about, then read on similar topics online. It can light up your mind on on how to go about expressing it in words. Thanks again for the compliment. Goodluck!

graceful dazzling

Thanks @yadi22

Cool, love it, na u oo

Lol.. Thanks for reading.

nice

Thank you.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Good suggestion..In life we ​​always want to live with good things And when we have to feel bad things..In my opinion ... fixing a slump with good steps is the best way..thanks fo u suggestion @wakkylyon(45) And I feel that your writing is very useful to me..

I'm happy it's useful to you @cekbai. Thanks for reading, and for your contribution too.

U r welcm @wakkylyon..Always success...i wait next u'r post

Excelente tu post, te felicito hace que uno se auto analice y motiva a la acción. Es cierto vivir la vida solo por vivirla no tiene sentido se hace vacía y sin propósito, y se convierte en una pesadilla de la cual uno puede acostumbrarse.

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Thank you loving my content. Keep on a sweetheart. My words are on @steemsecrets in the many faces.

Oh cool.. I'll look it up immediately. Thanks for stopping by.

@wakkylyon Wonderful to read your post. I'm 28 and it took me abooout 27 years to figure out this whole stuff with live and be alive or live and be zombie. You have such wisdom in your writing. I decided to live and take the risk, and to be happy.

Peace and love from Finland, from another deep thinker ! :)

Oh i'm happy you read this. And please don't feel bad, it's not in the number of years, it all changes in a moment, once you figure it out. Thanks for the compliment @olmosdesign. Happy Sunday from Nigeria!

Yeah I don't think anymore with age or numbers. I have this level / layer thinking. "Lobsters show intermediate growth; that is, they grow throughout their lives and therefore spend much of that time preparing for, or undergoing ecdysis. " Have you ever read about lobsters haha? We have things in common with these creatures! :)

Lobsters...wow!.. Who could have thought of it? I love your level of comparison. I'm sure we do share a lot of things in common with these creatures. I'll look lobsters up. Cheers!

Cool Post! Thanks for the follow by the way!

Thanks for reading.

Un escrito muy hermoso e inspirador.

Me alegra que hayas visto esto @yavo. Gracias por leer.

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Reading through I vividly recalled how I scale through the survival stages in my days of seeking admission. Glad I was successful in it.
@wakklyon, like seriously, this is very intelligent, full of inspiration and impressive. You good at this. Keep steeming my dear

I'm glad this has meant something... I'm encouraged and happy to relate with beautiful minds like these. Thanks for stopping by.

It's one thing to understand and grasp a concept. It's another to put those thoughts into action. It's not as simple and can take years to progress and change. It's important people not get discouraged and beat themselves up, but to give themselves a break on this journey and love themselves in as many ways possible

I totally agree @hopeinu. We need to learn life lessons fast and move on, you can't afford to be stuck with all the bad thoughts... Now courage is a virtue. Thanks for sharing a piece of your heart.