**yolo

I hope this doesn’t come off as too depressing but— lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about death, and about life, and how fleeting and short life truly is. 

Most of us are scared of dying.

While pondering this, I realized that I’m not afraid of dying. I’m not afraid of actual death or anything that happens afterward.

But I am afraid of wasting my short time here on Earth— of living selfishly and not being a light to the people around me so that they can also learn to live with hope.

Some people have been asking me about my goals for 2019– I suppose one of them is to live less selfishly, to think more of others….. to live while thinking consciously and practically about the eternal ramifications of death.

As a wise man once said: “yolo.”

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The photo, as well as the inspiration for this post, is from the lyric video to a song by The 1975, called “I Like America & America Likes Me”.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtKJXFqEtPM)

**famous line quoted by none other than Aubrey Drake Graham ;)