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Marvellous Ayodele
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Life isn't short,we make it short
<p>There’s a saying that life is short. And when you look at the entirety of existence, starting over thirteen billion years ago, the life you are given is a speck in time, a snap of the fingers, and a blink of an eye. And before you know it, you’ll be gone, but that doesn’t make your life inherently short.</p><p><br></p><p>And I think Seneca, a Stoic philosopher, said it best,</p><p><br></p><p>“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”</p><p><br></p><p>Time is given in sufficient measures, but many fail to use it to their advantage. But life becomes long when you know how to live. When you have a purpose you’re chasing after or if you’re fighting for something bigger than yourself. When you focus on the internal, your principles, your meaning, and your values, and you let those guide your life, that’s when it becomes long and fulfilling.</p><p><br></p><p>But when you lack a purpose, when you pursue luxury, when you’re after external things, that’s when life becomes short. What is driving you is not from within, but from outside, and those things can never fulfill you.</p><p><br></p><p>So when you reach the end of your life, which will come sooner than you think, you’ll give yourself this false perception that you weren’t given enough time. No, you were given enough, you just didn’t use it wisely.</p><p><br></p><p>It was spent pursuing flashy jewelry and fancy cars.</p><p><br></p><p>Chasing the approval of others.</p><p><br></p><p>Following the money.</p><p><br></p><p>Looking for crazy parties.</p><p><br></p><p>Hours, days, weeks, months, and years focusing on the external and because of it, time passed you by.</p><p><br></p><p>But when you have something you’re fighting for, life takes a whole new meaning.</p><p><br></p>
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