You Have One Life. Don’t Waste It.
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What question does Eddie ask to inspire reflection on life?
Sometimes I ask myself a question. It feels dramatic at first. But the longer I sit with it, the more practical it becomes. It's this. If today were my last day, what would I feel? There's a lot packed into that question. What would I regret? What would I be proud of? Who would come to mind immediately? what would suddenly feel important, and what would fall away the moment time became real. And every time I run through that thought experiment, I notice the same thing. The answers are never complicated. In fact, they're actually very clear. Which brings to light another uncomfortable truth, necessarily. Because... If we already know what would matter in the end, then why does so many of our days look nothing like it?
Why is there such a delta between what we know would make us happy and how we live? And not necessarily in dramatic ways, right? Sometimes in subtle ones, in the way we rush, in the way we default, in how easily we trade meaning for momentum. Now, this is not a rant about the world. It's not a complaint about society or, you know, an opportunity to shake your fist at the sky. It's a mirror. Because most of us, we don't lose ourselves all at once. We lose ourselves quietly by living in ways that don't leave a mark. There have been seasons in my life, plenty, right? And there will probably be more down the road where from the outside, everything looked fine. I was doing what I was supposed to. I was hitting the marks and keeping pace and nothing was technically wrong, right?
But hindsight's 20-20 and nothing was particularly memorable either. And that's the thing worthy of note, right? Sometimes the danger is not failure. It's not falling. It's not some monumental catastrophe. It's forgetability. It's like blending into the background in our own lives because the background is safe. Can't screw up when you're not on stage. It's hard to fall when you're just standing still, right? That's safety. Safety. But years later, when I think back to those seasons, there's nothing that stands out there. There's no texture or edge. There's just, I don't know, existing. Days blending into weeks and months dissolving into years. And you think about this, and that's when it hits. It's like when we blend in too well, even our own memories lose contrast.
We don't fall off course. We drift. taken by an unremarkable current into nothingness. When you imagine looking back on your life someday, what do you actually think you'll remember? Because I'm guessing it won't be the things that fit neatly. You probably won't remember the meetings. You won't remember the routines you never question. You'll remember moments. Specific moments.
Why do we often live in ways that don't align with our true desires?
Moments where something shifted, where you chose differently, where you stepped off the path you were supposed to be on. And those moments tend to have something in common. They didn't feel normal at the time. They felt uncertain. They felt uncomfortable. They felt a little strange or out there. There was that feeling in your stomach like, oh man, this deviates from everything I've done in the past. I hope this is okay. I hope it works out. And that initial sensation I've learned is not a deterrent, it's a key, it's a sign, it's a green light. This morning I was laying in bed half awake, listening to music as the day started to come into focus. And it wasn't necessarily to, you know, be productive. The goal wasn't to motivate myself.
I just wanted to be present. And a song came on, acoustic piano. It's a pretty niche song by Owl City. It's called Be Brave. And there's a line in it that stopped me cold. It gave me this feeling, right? Like this matters. And I'm not sure why it matters, but it matters. And I spent some time thinking about it. The line was, ain't life beautiful and strange? One of those lines that hits you before you can explain it. And the reason it hit me wasn't because it was poetic or beautiful to hear. It's because I somehow knew it was accurate. See, we tend to treat strange as a problem. Strange, something to fix, something to avoid. If someone acts out of character, we say they're being strange.
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