"Stop Surviving. Start Living." -Brian Moore
It's easy to survive, to move day to day. It's hard to live. When this was said to me, I can honestly say I was not living. Of course, at the time, I had no idea, but when Brian gave me this enlightening advice I realized just how much I had been missing by merely surviving.
To many, the difference may seem infinitesimal - survival is life, is it not? And life is survival. But after that moment, I understood that the two could never possibly be the same. Survival is what we default to. We eat. We sleep. We breathe. We drink. Survival is the essence of our very being; but life? Life is so much more. Life is a choice. Life is filled with emotion: love, hate, happiness, sadness, relief, pain. We dance.We cry. We seize the day. Survival is black and white; life is an array of color.
Filled with this universal truth, it became easy to see that the "life" I had been leading could not be that noun; it wasn't life, it was survival. Since then I would like to think that I continuously and with out abandon pursued living a life, not surviving one. I finally found something greater in life; more meaning. That wonderfully simple, yet incredibly complex, tidbit of advice that Brian Moore had given me has affected me infinitely. It has proved a challenge everyday, but one that I gladly wake up to each morning.
So I ask you, when are you going to stop surviving and finally start living?
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