Every person has a period when it seems to him that no one needs him, his life is useless and that he brings only misfortunes to others. These thoughts come to strong personalities for a short time, but with weak ones, everything happens much more complicated - they fall into depression, which is sometimes not so easy to get rid of.
A lot of people don't understand that life should be valued primarily for what you have. We all want to be happy, but does everyone understand what happiness is and what is its essence? But it can be everywhere if a person knows how to appreciate life and the joyful moments that it gives him.
How can you learn to appreciate life?
People who were on the verge of death, or experienced terrible moments in their lives, advise: "Rejoice in every day you live, appreciate every moment, live with pleasure." They understood all this only in those fateful seconds, before the great misfortune that overtook them. But this does not mean that you can learn to appreciate life only when you experience something like that. You can start appreciating life right now if you follow these few tips.
Look for the good everywhere and in everything.
Often people are not happy with what they have. Try for a few minutes to imagine that some people never had this at all. Here you are sitting on the couch in front of the TV, switching channels, one after another, and getting angry that there is nothing interesting, but there was a time when this was nothing, how did people live then? Your house seems small to you, and many years ago people lived in small shacks without windows or doors. Rejoice that you live in this modern world, and not many years ago, when you didn’t know about any conveniences.
Write down everything that makes you happy
Get a notebook in which you will write down the moments of happiness that life brings you. Write down the little things that make you happy all day. For example: a flower bloomed in a flower bed, it was a bright and sunny day, they found a coin on the way home. This will be a workout for you, over time you will learn to notice and enjoy every little thing. After all, you need to appreciate life not only for buying an apartment or for a new car!
Life is not eternal
Life is given to a person only once, there will be no other chance. Use it to its fullest. Decide what is most important for you, what activity brings you pleasure, what kind of people bring you happiness. Do not sit idly by complaining about life, everything is in your hands. Live now, because time flies quickly.
Smile
Smile as often as possible. Smiling will immediately make you feel better and happier. Smile to passers-by on the street, smile to a singing bird, smile to a small child on the playground, smile even when no one is at home. After all, the world becomes kinder from a smile.
Every person has such a period of life when it seems to him that he is useless, his life is terrible, and everything does not go at all as he dreamed of in his youth. For some, such thoughts come for a short time, and they go away, and someone can even fall into depression. Most people don't understand that they should be happy just because they are given life. All of our search for the perfect life is based on the belief that happiness should be one of the top priorities. And the ability to appreciate life is a component of the state of happiness. You can be happy, but you will never experience complete happiness if you take your time to accept the value of your life.
And you, specifically, you value life? It can be very easy to answer “yes” to this question quickly and without hesitation; but how deep and conscious is your feeling? Are you positive enough, are you grateful enough? If you cannot confidently answer our questions, then we will give some tips that will help you "reset" your perception of life.
How can we appreciate life?
How many times have we heard from people who have experienced some kind of life-threatening event: “Appreciate life, enjoy it, live every day fully, as if it were your last day”! These people were in the face of great danger that threatened their lives, and in those fateful seconds they realized how dear their lives were to them. But do we have to wait until our lives or the lives of those we care about are threatened before we all turn our attention to the joy of living?! What can we do right now so that the call “value life” is not only heard by us, but also becomes our motto?
- We must remember that we won't live forever
The time of our life is limited, and we must decide how to use it. When a person experiences near-death experiences, they always then become obsessed with the determination to live life to the fullest. But we decided: we begin to live life to the fullest right now! We do not need any extreme reasons for this. If you decide to do this, then it will become easier for you to figure out exactly how to do it. You can, of course, instead of fighting for the usefulness of life, just sit and complain about its (fullness) absence - but this is up to everyone to decide for themselves! After all, it all depends on you. We hope you appreciate life and try to make it happier.
- It is worth writing down in a special notebook everything that pleased us and everything for which we are grateful in our life.
Just don’t think that you need to record some global events there - such as the birth of a child or getting a new apartment. It will be very helpful if you set a very low bar for reasons to be happy. Learn to enjoy a ray of sunshine that lights up your room early in the morning, or a coin, albeit a small one, you find on the sidewalk. This will serve as a good workout for you, and very soon you will learn to see and appreciate things that you did not notice at all before. After all, one must be able to appreciate life not only for high paying job or the presence of a prestigious foreign car!
- Always look for the good in everything
If you are dissatisfied with something, try to imagine a situation when people did not have what you now do not like so much. Complain that you can't find anything interesting on TV despite great amount channels? But how did people live 60 years ago, when there were no TVs at all, not to mention computers and other realities of our time? Are you annoyed that your car "eats" too much gasoline? Think about it, if you lived a hundred years ago, you would be happy just because you even have a car. Does your apartment feel cramped? And a few thousand years ago you would have lived in a cave covered with skins ... It's just great that you were born and live right now - you appreciate life in the modern world!
- Think about how much worse your life would be if you were... successful, rich or famous
If you compare your life with the life of prosperous and happy outwardly people, then you should understand that not everything in their life is smooth. Someone earns millions, but is never completely free to play with his little child ... Someone is famous, but completely devoid of privacy ... Some people succeed, we think, but how happy can they be? And you? If you are reading this article, it means that you have a computer and Internet access, and you have a desire for self-improvement. Most likely, you never face the fact that you have nothing to eat, and in fact many people do not have not only food, but even clean drinking water. You have the opportunity to spend your free time with relatives and friends, and some do not leave their office for days, earning their millions. Everything is not so bad with you compared to other people, so rejoice at every occasion and appreciate life even more!
More ways to fill every day with joy
- Each evening, list at least five things that gave you at least a little joy that day. If at first you have difficulty finding five things that make you happy, then start mentioning having a roof over your head, food, friends, health - all the things that make you appreciate life.
- Smile. Yes, that's all it takes - just smile, and as much as possible! Smiling, you will immediately feel how your mood rises. Smile even when no one is around and no one will see your smile.
- Hug! This gives a powerful positive charge. Hug a child, lover, teddy bear, or friend, and hug as often as possible.
- Use every day things that you like - perfume, lotions, jewelry, good clothes. Enjoy them instead of saving them "for special occasions."
- Enjoy nature. Sunrises and sunsets, the smell of flowers, the sound of rain, the leaves rustling under your feet will tell you better than us how to appreciate life. The beauty of nature is a great way to forget your worries and put a smile on your face.
- Try yourself in some hobby. Even if you can not devote much time to it, this activity will charge you with positive.
Nobody says that being happy is easy. But sometimes we get so focused on making our lives better that we forget to appreciate what we already have. If you set too many distant goals for yourself, you risk spending your entire life to get there. And having realized your goal in the distant future, you will understand that you missed too much on your life path. Don't do it, be grateful and enjoy your life right now!
And you know, life is wonderful and amazing, but only on one condition ... if you notice and be surprised!
The most important thing is the will to live. rejoice sunbeam, a wild flower, a sparrow chirping on a branch ... Almost everyone has the gift of being happy in childhood, but only a few can keep it for life ...
- What will you do tomorrow?
- I will live!
Don't wait for the crisis to pass. Right now, smile, hug the one who is nearby, and mentally - those who are at a distance, knead the dough for the pie, throw a warm letter in the mailbox, forgive the one who is offended, close your eyes for a minute and, opening them, start life again. Do not take it too seriously, do not look for meaning, benefits, revenge. Just live, smile and love. It is not hard.
To live means to share your soul.
… Every day brings us a chance. Chance to live. A chance to love and believe. A chance to understand and accept. Smile when there is no reason for it, call a long-forgotten friend, go to mom for the weekend, adopt a puppy, wear a very beautiful and bold dress, buy expensive perfume that you have dreamed about for so long, go to another city, buy yourself flowers, admire your reflected in random shop windows, get high-heeled shoes from a drawer, buy a box of your favorite sweets and eat on the way ...
Fall in love! You can not turn on the TV, do not read newspapers, do not make excuses and do not say "never". Leave the city and walk barefoot on the grass. Wander under the warm rain and look at the evening city, sitting on the roof of the house. Book a hotel room and order pineapple champagne. Go overnight in the forest. Walk around the city, get tired, sit on a bench and eat ice cream. Call the person with whom you have so many pleasant moments, and whose number has long been in the phone book, and say: I MISSED YOU SO MUCH. Do not wait for an eternal tomorrow and do not say an unrealizable “maybe”. Don't dream about what others make a reality. Live, and do not prepare for this all your life ... and do not look for reasons to be happy when a new day comes ... We do not start a new life in the morning, from Monday and from the New Year. New life is a life in which we are not afraid of our desires and do not forget about dreams, hiding them far, far away. And there is no need to wait for a non-existent "one day" ...
The rest is just to live. Indulge yourself with delicious food, build a family or not, make a career or not, go to other countries, read beautiful books, walk barefoot on the spring grass, pick wild flowers, gurgle lemonade through a straw and sometimes turn your back to the stereotypes of society.
Elchin Safarli
But until youth has passed, it must be turned into joy. One hundred percent. To complete satisfaction, you know? Only with these memories will it be possible to warm oneself in old age.
Haruki Murakami "1Q84"
Important not to miss own life. Not to spend our days in a stupor, dutifully swallowing whatever questionable ideas it feeds us modern society through funds mass media and being in a state of dormancy. The most amazing gift that is given to us in life is the opportunity to be people, because only people are endowed with consciousness. So be grateful for that.
Treat your feelings with respect, don't dull them by being in a state of drug intoxication, depression or voluntary stupor. Try to notice something new every day. Pay attention to even the smallest details. Even if you don't live in the forest, always be on your guard. Feel the taste of food, the smell of the household chemicals department in the supermarket, notice how these harsh chemical smells affect the senses. Walk barefoot and note how you feel; do it every day important discoveries that gives you awareness. And take care of all living things - your body, intellect, those who live nearby and the entire planet. Do not pollute your soul with apathy, and your body with unhealthy food, just as you would not deliberately pour industrial waste into a clean river. Treating the world around you with carelessness and neglect, you will never become a real person.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Life is great and every moment it comes with a thousand and one gifts for you.
How valuable sometimes is what we habitually consider trifles ...
The best way to thank for an amazing moment is to just enjoy it)
When you see that everything is blooming around, inhale and hold your breath for five seconds, and keep the state of joy that will flow into you throughout your life ...
The most important thing is the will to live. Rejoice in a sunbeam, a wild flower, a sparrow chirping on a branch ...
LIVE!
In our time, people have lost interest in life: they do not get bored, do not cry, they just wait for time to pass. They have given up the struggle, and life has given up on them. This threatens you too: act, boldly go forward, but do not give up on life. LIVE.
Never stop there. Don't just exist... live. Don't just feel... feel. Don't just watch... study. Don't just read... absorb. Don't just listen... hear. Don't just hear... understand.
John G. Rhodes
Walking on water is not a miracle.
The miracle is to walk the Earth and feel really alive right now.
And smile!
Please enjoy life! Take it with both hands, squeeze it, shake it and appreciate every second. Love your children. You literally have no idea what happiness it is to urge them on in the morning so that they brush their teeth as soon as possible. Hug your loved ones and if they can't hug you back, find someone who can. Everyone deserves love and reciprocal feelings. Don't settle for less. Find a job that will bring joy, do not become its slaves. "I would like to work harder" is not something that will be written on your grave. Dance, laugh and eat with your friends. True, honest and strong friendship is absolute Happiness and something that we can choose for ourselves. Choose your friends carefully and carefully, just like looking for a treasure. Surround yourself with beautiful things. Life is full of sadness and pain - but find your rainbow and don't let it go. Beauty is in everything, sometimes you just need to look a little more carefully to notice it.
Charlotte Keatley "Letter to the Remaining"
And you need to live with taste ... as long as there is an appetite ..!!)))
Life must be lived now; it cannot be put off indefinitely. Irvin Yalom
Bloom like flowers. Life is unique. Do not hesitate to turn it into bright and large inflorescences. Let beautiful flowers bloom in your Heart and in your home. Let the flowering of the Heart become a torch brightly illuminating your Path in this world.
Treat the new day like a miracle!
Children wake up in the morning and perceive the new day as a miracle, like the first day of their life. Most adults don't know how to do this. We can't stop thinking about tomorrow, we can't leave the past behind. We constantly sigh, regretting something... It's time to relearn!
Do you think that this is just another day in your Life?
This is not just another day: this is the very Only Day that is given to you Today.
He is given to you.
This is a gift.
The only Gift you have right now.
And the only correct response is to feel Gratitude.
Every day is wonderful!
How can you say that life is not beautiful? Every day is beautiful in itself, there is no such day in life in which there is no happiness, real happiness. From the very morning, when the sun rises, life is already beautiful. After all, on this day you could no longer be. But you live and you can enjoy the sun that shines, the wind that blows and all living things around you...
When you contemplate mountain forests and streams running over stones, the heart clouded with worldly dirt is gradually cleared. When you read the ancient canons and look at the paintings of ancient masters, the spirit of worldly vulgarity dissipates little by little. Therefore, a noble man, although he does not indulge in frivolous admiration of things, looks at the world as in a mirror, and thus corrects his heart.
Hong Zicheng ---
There is nothing complicated in life. We are complex. Life is a simple thing, and the simpler it is, the more correct it is.
Discover the 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD:
see,
hear,
feel,
talk,
think,
rejoice
be in love!
Time is one of those things we have no control over. The only thing we can do is fill our days, make them longer, wider. And there is only one remedy - love and attention to others. Like a child. His day is very long: he will find a leaf, examine it for half an hour, and the whole world unfolds before his eyes. And you can not consider a leaf, but people. Do as much as possible, write, shoot. Fill life.
Write the world. Not for me, not for anyone else, just like that, not knowing how to do otherwise. Keep it warm on the exhale of the day. Tell the sky, fabulously starry or piercingly blue. Color it with multi-colored flashes of birds. Weave from words the twilight and awe of the ancient forests, expose the hot breath of the steppes. Draw rain and draw a rainbow with a stroke of eyelashes. Let into him the predatory movement of the night, listening to the incoherent whisper of love. Sound the laughter of children ringing at dawn. Breathe the sea into it, alive, huge, incredible. Decorate the edges with a carved pattern of frost playing with the sun. Dance in it like falling leaves, embrace it with mists. Write a world, not for me, just like that... and I will forever live in it.
DO NOT SAVE, FILL LIFE WITH EVENTS
Studies show that material goods (various purchases) make us happy only for a short time.
Life experience and experiences bring more joy in general. So enjoy your holiday by going on a safari, learn a new language, join a dance club and you will be happy.
Bliss is the only criterion for life. If you do not feel that life is bliss, then know that you are going in the wrong direction.
OSHO
People have completely forgotten that one has to live. Who has time for this? Everyone teaches someone else how to be, and no one ever seems satisfied. If a person wants to live, then he must learn one thing: to accept things as they are, and to accept yourself as you are. Start living. Don't start preparing for the life that will be in the future. All the suffering in the world comes from the fact that you have completely forgotten that you need to live, you have become engaged in activities that have nothing to do with life.
Osho
Today devote a day to a set of energy and resources, vitality. Today you should eat well and tasty, enjoy eating and drinking. Try to feel the fullness of life in everything you do.
Food eaten with pleasure is very different from food eaten to satisfy hunger. It will bring more benefits, because along with it you also take emotions into yourself. Any emotions are a resource, a reserve that you can always use for your own benefit.
At times, you have to allow yourself to get carried away by doing nothing. Go without haste soft step to a waltz of snowflakes, and not to run headlong; just sit on a chair and look out the window as the house opposite is being built; just don't talk, close your eyes and hug. Elchin Safarli - I was promised you
Life begins now - right now - not tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
Every minute of every hour of every day life begins anew.
Why put off making a decision until later...doesn't this just put your life on pause?
It is not necessary to think even for a second to understand why exactly you received this message today.
Neil Donald Walsh
We must surround ourselves with people who bring us joy, and go where our hearts lead us.
Sara Gio - Moonlight Trail
Feel the thrill of life inside your body. This is your anchor in the Now. Eckhart Tolle
When you ascend to heights, your heart becomes light.
When you stand over the river, thoughts are carried far away.
When you read a book on a snowy night, the soul is cleansed.
When you hum a melody on top of a hill, you feel a surge of strength.
Hong Zicheng
We live in this world only when we love it.
I want to collapse into the unrumpled grass,
stare envious eyes into the sky
and plunge into the floral scents,
and endlessly adore everything that lives.
Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
The aroma of fresh pear, the beauty of sunrise and sunset, the feeling of a breath of wind, the waves of the sea, touches... Moments for which we live!
Don't focus on what's under your feet.
Raise your eyes...
There is also something to see.
Our life is just a collection of many small lives, each one day long. And every day you need to live in love and beauty, admiring the flowers and birds, enjoying the moment. Nicholas Sparks
Man is born for great Joy, for unceasing creativity, for wide, free, unfettered Love for everything; to the tree, to the sky, to the man, to the sweet, beautiful earth, especially to the earth with its blissful motherhood, with its mornings and nights, with its wonderful daily miracles. A.I. Kuprin
You don't sing a song to get to the last note. Singing brings joy. The same goes for life. Joy is in living. (Chuck Hillig)
What do you need to enjoy life?
- Look around you.
Matsumoto Jun
Dedicate your life to beauty. Don't dedicate it to the disgusting. You don't have much time, not much energy to waste. Such a small life, such a small source of energy, is just stupid to waste on anger, sadness, hatred, jealousy.
Look at the stars and appreciate the fact that you live.
Bernard Werber
ENJOY EVERY STEP
Remind yourself more often that the purpose of life is not at all to fulfill everything planned, but to enjoy every step taken on the path of life, to fill life with love.
Life is measured not by the number of days, hours and minutes, but by what you managed to do during the time allotted to you on earth.
Alice Peterson - Just be with me!
The smell of fresh bread, fried seeds, raw corn that was not plucked, the smile of a passerby, sunrise and sunset, warm rain, fluffy snowflakes, birds singing in the morning, rain on the roof, a bug running across the road ... A huge building consists of small bricks, but people they are not seen, they are not noticed ... So life consists of such trifles that make up the picture of the world ... complete ... You just need to look at it all from the other side ...
All I need I have: air to breathe and a folder with sheets of paper. I love waking up in the morning not knowing what awaits me, who I will meet and where I will end up next. Until recently, I spent the night under the bridge, and today I am here, sailing on a magnificent ship, drinking champagne in an elegant society ... Life is a gift and it must be appreciated, it is impossible to guess what will happen to you tomorrow. Life must be accepted as it is. Every day counts...
Titanic ---
We ourselves invent problems, barriers, complexes and frameworks for ourselves. Free yourself - breathe life and understand that you can do anything!
The world will present itself to you exactly as you imagine it to yourself.
You constantly adjust your life to your own ideas about it.
What you believe strongly enough is what you will see in your life. And by no means the other way around. In fact, the everyday hell you live in is nothing but the result of your stubborn belief that the here and now is not heaven at all.
Chuck Hillig
Sincerely enjoying simple things is priceless!
If a person likes life, if he is able to enjoy every minute spent on this earth, if he knows how to find joy for himself even in small things, then he is young, no matter what numbers are written in his passport.
No matter how bad you feel.
No matter how unbearable the current moment may seem to you.
No matter how impossible the future may seem to you.
Do not rush.
You have no other time in your Life.
And this nightmare is also part of the time allotted to you.
And your mood is a part of you living now.
Think about yourself.
About what you are.
That you are still here.
About the fact that you still have a lot of things from which it can be good.
You don't have to pretend, you already are.
And it doesn't matter what will happen in this vague future.
It is you - and there has never been another like it and never will be again.
Postponing Life just because you feel bad is not a good idea.
We lack only the necessary: a large piece of the sky. Try to always keep a piece of the sky above your life.
Marcel Proust
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it's deadly. Paulo Coelho.
Stop looking, just open your eyes and see. Life is around you.
When for the first time something happens to you that is beyond words, it means that Life has knocked at your door.
You have to love life more than your own career, and love yourself more than your own success.Irina Khakamada
Life itself does not mean anything until a person appears who tries to interpret its phenomena. Carl Gustav Jung.
Life is somewhat like a painting.
There are many wonderful things that can be seen if you look closely. Life is somewhat like a painting. On a very strange abstract painting. You can look at it and think that it's just a blurry spot. You can live like this all your life, thinking that this is just a blurry spot. But if you look closely, you can still see what is depicted there. If you concentrate and use your imagination, life can become something much more for you. In this picture, for example, there may be a sea, sky, people, buildings, butterflies sitting on flowers - anything, and not at all a blurry spot, as you once imagined.
It doesn't matter how many days are in your life. It matters how much life is in your days!
In general, life is full of extremely dangerous things.
The most dangerous are the ones we don't understand. And the ones that don't even exist...
We come into the world with a specific mission. Someone discovers, develops it in himself, and someone lives in the unknown. Learn to share your skill. One writes inspiring texts, another cooks delicious food, the third heals the sick, the fourth is an excellent shoe repairer. If right now you have nothing to say to the world, sing. Anything. To yourself or aloud. As a child, I did not remember the words of my favorite songs well - I had to invent them. And it was wonderful - he sang about what he wanted. Write texts, compose melodies, color memories.
If you do not hear answers to questions, go on the road. Do not be lazy, do not think that everything will be as usual, destroy the ridiculous boundaries in your head. The road does not always require money, visas, tickets. The path inward, which is far more important than the outer one, craves only desire. Those who are not afraid to turn inward will find their way outside.
Elchin Safarli - Tell me about the sea
Life is Beautiful.
Don't believe the rumours.
Life is Beautiful.
Life is a tested product, used by 70 billion people for three million years. This proves its perfect quality.
Bernard Werber
Life is what people strive to preserve most of all and cherish least of all.
Jean de La Bruyère
Don't be afraid that your life must end, be afraid that it will never begin. John Newman
Life is not a chain of events that take place around you in time and space ... Life is a chain of your inner states that you create for yourself by rating these or those events in which you find yourself. Everyone is able to wake up at any moment, realizing these two processes ... One is an external event, the other is an internal state, and the point of their connection is your mind.
-- Papaji ---
Richard Gere about life.
“My friend’s mom has been eating healthy all her life. Never drank alcohol or any "bad" food, exercised every day, was always mobile and active, took all the supplements that her doctor prescribed, never went out in the sun without sunscreen, and when she went out, it was so for a short time , as soon as possible, in general, she guarded her health by doing everything that was possible. She is now 76 years old and has skin cancer, bone marrow cancer and severe osteoporosis.
My friend's father eats bacon on top of bacon, butter on top of butter, fat on top of fat, never, literally never exercised, burned to a crisp every summer in the sun, in fact he lived to the fullest and not as advised by others. He is 81 and the doctors say he has the health of a young man.
People, you can't hide from your poison. He is, and he will find you, so, as my friend's mother said: "If I knew that my life would end like this, I would have lived it to the fullest, enjoying everything that I was told not to do!". None of us will make it out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like a minor. Eat delicious food. Walk in the sun. Jump into the ocean. Share the precious truth that is in your heart. Be stupid. Be kind. Be weird. There is simply no time for anything else."
We all ask questions. It took me a long time to figure out which questions are really important. It turned out that those who tormented me "how?" (How to make more money? How to get a promotion?) don't matter at all. No, you need to think about something else. For example, what do flowers think about under the snow? Or when birds book tickets to fly south? Donna Vanlier - Christmas Shoes
Life passes very quickly. If we are not ready, if we do not know how to forgive, love, or listen, then we are past.
Peter Mamonov
We cannot change the length of our life, but we can do something about its breadth and depth.
Life is so good that it does not always meet expectations!
Max Frei "The Outsider. Echo Labyrinths -1"
To live means to communicate with the world, to address it, to act in it, to think about it. Living is something no one can do for me. Life is what we are, what we do. Life is what we do and what happens to us. Nothing we do is our life if we are not aware of it. To live is to feel life, to be aware of one's existence, where "to be aware" does not mean intellectual knowledge, not any special knowledge, but the amazing presence of life for everyone. Life is discovery, understanding or seeing, being aware of what it is. Continuous discovery - which we make about ourselves and the world around us. To find an image in which the memory of this idea is fixed, let us turn to Egyptian mythology, where Osiris dies, and Isis, his beloved, wants to resurrect him and allows him to swallow the eye of the falcon-Horus. Since then, the eye appears in all the sacred paintings of the Egyptian civilization, symbolizing the first property of life: to look at oneself. Seeing yourself is the main and initial attribute of life itself. To live means to be aware of yourself. Life in its very origins and depths consists of knowing and understanding oneself, in seeing what surrounds us, in being clear to oneself. Life is what we do. To live is to realize that we live here, now, that is, we are in some place in the world. If you came here, then you decided to live this segment of your life in this way. To live is to sustain oneself, endure oneself, and direct oneself. Life is a necessity to decide what we will become. To live is to be in the world. To live is to constantly decide what we will be. Our life is first of all a collision with the future. You decide to be either attentive or distracted, to think about this or that, and this thinking about life or about something else is your life right now. To live means to be busy with this or that, to do. But this doing means doing something for something. The occupation we are now engrossed in is rooted in this "for" which usually names the goal. To this “for”, considering which I now act and in atom action I live and exist, I have dedicated myself, because among the possibilities that opened before me, I considered it the best occupation of my life. My life is a decision to act. To live is not to be in an impenetrable, opportunity-rich world. The world of life for me consists every moment of the opportunity to do this or that, and not of the necessity against the desire to do one thing and that one thing. To live means to live here, now - here and now are adamant, unchangeable, but wide. Every life decides by choosing itself among many possible ones. To live means continuously, initially to prefer something and neglect something. Life is about deciding what we will be.