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Live before you die
Introduction
We often hear wise words from our elders that live before you die but unfortunately most of us perceive the meaning of living the life to be just breathing. We come to this world with no idea of how things will happen for us and we become dependent on the views of other people on life. We never understand the meaning of life and this is why instead of going after our dreams we start following the expectations of society as a herd. The moment we realize the things we really wanted, it becomes too late to go back in time and get what we really needed. This is what the author of “This is water” tried to convey to his readers by giving daily examples from life (Wallace, 2009). The idea is to live life to the fullest and accomplish all the things that make us alive. The aim of this essay is to make the reader understand the significant things that matter to us i.e. passion but are always taken for granted. This essay will throw some light on the contradictions we face with our families in pursuing the passion dreams that can bring a drastic change in our life.
Discussion
Every person has some dreams, some interests and some passion in life that makes him keep going and enjoy the journey he has planned for himself. With this journey, some hurdles also come in the way which stops us and draw us into confusion about our wants and needs. These hurdles are most of the times the challenges we face in the form of societal expectations, family preferences for us, the norms and myths which most of us blindly follow. Many people give up in the way and surrender to the demands asked from them by making them compromise on their dreams and passion. They do that and later ends up regretting in life when they see someone accomplished their dreams and stood against society. Just like that, I too have a passion for building LEGOs in my life. I have a key interest in this activity and I really enjoy performing the work related to LEGOs but my family does not have similar views about this interest. They think that I am wasting my time by not giving enough input to my studies. My family has always kept education on the topmost priority for me but I disagree on this matter with them. They should give me enough choice to decide for myself because for me education is not the only way to success and happiness. Education is important for those who want to do extraordinary work in the Fifield of research and I do not have such interest. My priorities are different as I have many other choices to plan for my success in life.
Life does not come with compulsion; it comes with a lot of choices. Choices are provided to us at all the stages of life and based on those choices we decide our own fate. We can choose to remain happy by not stressing or and we can also choose to ruin our day by overthinking. This is what David Foster also tried to tell us and I agree with him as far as the matter of choices is concerned (Wallace, 2009). Sometimes the reality is right in front of eyes and we choose to deny the truth by keeping our eyes closed. It is not necessary o always think in a certain pattern like others. We can choose to think differently and will discover many hidden truths of life which will facilitate us in our journey to success and happiness. Foster's brief piece of literature about compassion, realization, and choices makes sense to me because I have also seen the pressure to remain in the line and sacrificing real pleasure we receive from our passions and dreams.
There is no exact formula or a roadmap for the journey forward d in our lives as we have to continuously deal in the gains and losses we received from the choices we made. But my view is that, instead of experiencing the gains and losses for something I never wanted in the first place, I should choose to opt for the pain and loss for the things I always wanted. Let's suppose that I opt for the choices that everyone demands from me and abandon my choices. I will feel the pain twice and will be neutral to the gains received from pursuing the choices my family wants me to make. I will have a stable career and will earn money but I will not feel happy in that kind of success. There will always be a part of me which will be dying every moment I wake up in the morning to go to the hectic job I never desired for. I will die before the death comes in and people bury me. This is why it is really important to start actually living before choosing to die in the hands of wrong choices made consciously.
Conclusion
David Foster only provides a glimpse of what the actual life should be for the people who die before they actually lived. He has great life lessons for us but does not provide a solid roadmap to move forward in life. The roadmap to life is within us and only we should be empathic enough to realize the truth on our own. He only helps us on climbing the first step to realizing that what we are living is not life, life should be explored in the things that move and evolves us not just provide us monetary gains and settlement in life.
Works Cited
Wallace, David Foster. This is water: Some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a compassionate life. Little, Brown, 2009.
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