Stop Hoping and Start Living

Life is meant to be lived. Life is not meant to be spent hidden away in your room or your house. Life is meant to be experienced. We are supposed to be happy, joyful, free, and we are meant to defy gravity in all things. Overcoming fear comes with experience. Even though we have fear, we must go forward in spite of it and do whatever it is we are afraid of: that is the essence of courage. Be courageous as you seek out your hopes and dreams. We all hope for our dreams to come to true and without that hope we would have nothing. "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and a good thing never dies." "Get busy living or get busy dying." The film Shawshank Redemption can teach us many important life lessons including those two quotes from the film right there. As we continue on in this trek and journey we call life, we must strive to thrive and live in every circumstance that maybe given to us. Not to be acted upon, but to act for ourselves. "We were not sent to this earth to fail, but to succeed gloriously." Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the twelve apostles has been quoted many times saying that exact line in his conference talks. I hope to start to experience the good parts of life, the exciting things, the hopeful things. I want to begin to really fly and live my life to the fullest no matter what. Seize the day, carpe diem to the max. I want to become in tune with the universe and flow with it everyday. I want to be one with the almighty universe and let it take me on an adventure that was and is worth fighting for and worth choosing to come down to this earth and experience all that it has to offer. We only get one of each day, so it is finally time to start to make each one of them count. No more wasted days on health problems, or anything else. Leave the gray skies of depression behind me, and fight for the light that is just waiting for me to come unto it and live in it forever. I want to stop hoping and start living! I have so many ideas, and dreams, and so many talents and skills that I need to share with the world. I want to leave this world better than it was when I found it and came upon it. I know everything will happen soon and begin soon, I just can't wait to truly start living and truly start experiencing days full of joy and happiness from sun up to sun down. There is so much out there I have missed and I only have so much time to make up for all of those missed times and experiences. I want to fall in love. I mean really fall in love, head over heels in love. My oh my how grand that would be to love someone more than you love yourself. To care for someone so much that you are willing to die for that person. What a lifetime of experiences that are just waiting for me to begin and start enjoy them piece by piece, moment by moment. There is no point in waiting any longer, just jump in the deep end and start swimming.