Mountains

Encompassing ups and downs, the way we too often forget to live

Is life supposed to be this way? Filled with insurmountable ups and downs, so many that you feel like you're drowning. The downs can be so low that it seems impossible to recover from, impossible to be able to live another day. Then there are the highs, the highs that surpass any drug, any artificial feeling you can give yourself. The high of complete and utter happiness. You feel unstoppable. Those lows you so faintly remember can’t touch you. You are above all, untouchable. Then it hits. Another down. That feeling of euphoria seems so far away, almost as a memory or a dream you struggle to recollect.

Who decided that life is lived this way? Fighting for your own happiness, struggling for any type of success. They say you only have one life, so why is this the way that we choose to live it? We so often get pulled into the turmoil of sewing together each moment of ourselves into something meaningful and memorable that we forget to actually live it. We detach ourselves from the life itself that we are living my trying to work for the “one day”. One day I won’t have to work so hard. One day I will be happy. I want that one day to be now. We deserve that one day to be our lives. Each day should be lived to the fullness it capacities, with the idealization that we will never have this day again. Each one that goes by may not be the most eventful or substantial, however, it should be nothing less than living. Lived in the way you choose, and lived to the fullest extent you are able.

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[alanwgraham]

You have certainly described our roller coaster ride through life well Ari. Of course it does vary from person to person so much. Life events, illness and deaths, can play a big part but there is a personal factor too. We can seem at the mercy of events but many get depressed for no apparent reason. The thing is, do something - get exercise, join a club, go to church ,stay on the summits.
We only live once!
All the best.
Alan