Wednesday 9 March 2011

Live life to the fullest?

Wish I was 'The Happy Person', but I'm just a miserable fucker!! oh well
'Live life to the fullest' is quite an easy thing to say really. But what is the fullest? and does anyone know of anyone that they think does that? and is it a realistic way to be? is it relative to each individual person? (eg beauty is in the eye of the beholder) how is it possible to do/be like that when there are always repercussions or consequences to your actions?
Does 'live life to the fullest' mean.....

Go off traveling around the world?
Sell your house
take your children out of school
money/dept

Making your house somewhere extra lovely to live or moving to a bigger more luxury house?
money/dept
stress of living with all the building work
moving away

Stop doing all the boring house work?
live in a shit pit
your kids go to school dirty in dirty clothes
get ill through using same plate 5 times!!
wear same knickers for a week, buy more knickers when you run out of clean ones

Do what ever you want to do? what ever it is?
money/dept
family & friends
your children
health

Moving and living abroad?
Leaving family
changing jobs
leaving support

Giving up or changing your job?
Security for you/your family
Mortgage and bills to pay
Responsibilities
Taking risks

What is it you want to do?
To be a good parent
To secure somewhere to live
You and your children to have friends & family close by
Your children to have a good education
To manage your money and not be in debt or to leave debts behind for others
To look after your family and make sure they are all okay
To spend time with the ones you love.

Is this what they mean by 'living your life to the fullest' 'living every day as it comes' or is this just what we all do? or am I completely missing the point? am I looking on the negative side of everything? I could do lots of things to live my life a bit fuller or try and change things to make me more of 'the happy person' but there would be repercussions or consequences.
Do we not do any of these things because we are scared too, do we just get used to our 'ground hog day' lives or just care too much about the repercussions or consequences to others or ourselves.
But then everyone always says as long as we've got our health!!
I'm fucked there then!!!!!

The Happy Person

In a World where many have ulcers due to worry and stress
And where people are judged by material success
And since everyone answers to the reaper's call
The happy one is the most successful of all.

For the top job the happy one does not compete
And the happy one never feels sad in defeat
Not to be a hero or catch the big fish
Just to be happy in life is the happy one's wish.

The happy one can be a he or a she
But to find such a person do not look for me
Since like many others i feel weighed down by care
Though people like me they have never been rare.

The happy one everyone wishes to know
And the friends of the happy one in numbers grow
One who is not tainted by conceit or guile
And one who finds it easy to laugh and to smile.

by
Francis Duggan

Live Each Day To the Fullest

Sitting on the steps, looking across the lake,
Wondering why, life at times, can seem great.
But in that second, it took me to just think,
My life could change, faster than a blink.

Is this a reason why we should always cherish?
Not knowing when loved ones may suddenly perish.
Living everyday, like it was our very last,
for our days could be very long or go by very fast.

So I'll cherish and take nothing for granted,
not say things that shouldn't be chanted.
If this is the last day I have on this earth,
I accept my life, for what it's been worth.

Tomorrow isn't promised to young or old alike,
Today may be the last day I'm able to hold you tight.
Don't wait for tomorrow, do it all today,
If tomorrow never comes, you'll never regret a day.

Amy D. Liskey