dolce vita

"Life is a box of chocolates, you'll never know what you're gonna get." That was what Forrest Gump said. It's a good credo indeed. I have learned that in this life, nothing is permanent. Life is just too precious to simply dismiss it or throw it away. It's funny because, in our everyday lives, it's just too easy to ignore the importance of life. We spend our days in reckless abandon like there's no tomorrow. The devil may care, you might say. The thing is, you never know when you're gonna be involved in an accident or whether you're gonna get sick. By the time you realize it, it's already too late. We should value life because it is our very existence! There is a line in a movie which got stuck in my head long after I have watched it, and it really struck me hard. The line goes something like this: "If you love someone, you have to say it out loud, right at that very moment, or the moment will just pass you by." It was a line from the movie My Best Friend's Wedding. It sums up how we should handle life and our loved ones. Carpe diem! Don't wait for tomorrow for tomorrow might be too late!

But how many of us could actually claim that they value life more than anything else in the world? I, for one, am guilty of neglecting it. There are moments when I overlook the precious moments I spent with the people around me. I have forgotten how they anchor me through tough times. I usually worry about tomorrow, in the process I momentarilty forgot the present. In the end, it is really our choice how to spend our life. You wanna waste it? Go ahead, you have your free will. You wanna savor life? Then by all means, you're free to do so!