YOLO

You Only Live Once, Carpe diem, live for today, seize the day, now or never, it is what it is.... this list of similar words for YOLO, from the thesaurus is so long, but has a lot of deeper meaning hidden within.

I am not going to write a listicle of why we should feel happy just because we woke up and have a heartbeat. Because we all have a choice, if we can put up a smile, feel blessed to see a sunrise, start the day of unknowns with a cup of coffee after pulling ourself out of the bed, or to stay in bed and be scared of the world, then push ourself out of the bed and hurry to work. But whatever your choice is, you are ALIVE. With your heartbeat and breathing, you have a choice to always choose how you live.

It's said, "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough". Well, that, I think it's gravely wrong. One cannot do the right thing the first time. What is right and what is wrong varies in perspective. "If you do it right" assumes that everything is forced on you to make an optimal choice in life. Not only it makes life feel too one-dimensional, but it also skyrockets the stakes. It is like, if you wrong in one ultimate decision, then everything you have lived for is wrong. Well, that’s a little too grim.

We can't live like that. We know with absolute certainty and zero reservations that we make mistakes in life. We always had made terrible mistakes in the past and will make in the future too, that they will make our past mistakes shrink to embarrassments. We all regret making a few decisions, for not making the decisions that we should have made, for an awful lot of things that we no longer can make right. The famous American singer, Taylor Swift, in her song "Back to December" sings "I'd go back in time and change it but I can't". Well, yes, it's true. We all have some things we wish we could take back.

And hey, one cannot always know what is right and what is wrong. It's okay to make new mistakes, but also be ready to go through the consequences once you commit one. What is important is that we always learn from our mistakes, so that we don't fall into that same pit again.

You Only live once; be happy, be sad, be angry, be an adrenaline junkie, have love, have trust, have broken hearts, have peace of mind, be grateful and experience everything. We don't have to "do life right", but we should always do our best. Life shouldn't be about being RIGHT, but about DOING.

You only live once, yes. It means that you live every day and die only once. Choose to live multiple lives, while you have a choice because you only have one life. It is always your choice how you want to live every day.