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YOLO!!

"Everyone has two lives, the second one starts when they realise they have only one" - Confucius

Let me elaborate -

Suppose you are preparing for an exam, you have two months to prepare for it. You plan everything, you dissect the syllabus, clearly set goals for the following 8 weeks.

1st day you were supposed to study chapters 1,2 and 3. But you only covered two chapters - maybe you didn't feel like studying, got busy with some other work. It's ok, no need to feel bad, you still have 59 days till exam, you can cover. 

2nd day - you did good.
Covered the 3rd chapter and also the day's part. 

3rd day - you did even better, covered the day's part, and even more. So you started the next day's work too...

Days went by, the exam date arrived, and you failed.
You go home feeling sad. 
You wake up next morning, and plan to pass the exam next semister. And you did! Congratulations!!


Let me paint you another scenario - 

You and your friends plan to go to Goa on a trip!
Yes, i know you planned! Most of us do!
Did you go? No? 
Don't feel bad, maybe after you got a decent job, you can go. Or maybe after marriage.
Or maybe after you have kids, 
Or maybe after retirement.


There is an after. There is a maybe next time.

What if there wasn't? 
What if you only get one shot at your exam? 
What if you only get one chance to go to Goa?

What if life was your only chance?
That's it!! 
Do you have any memories of things/events before you were born? So what if it's same after death?
There is no next, there is no maybe. 
It is comfortable to believe there will be another chance. 
Almost all religions have something comforting you that there is another chance.
Heaven, Reincarnation and so on. 

What if there is only one chance, that you get, and that's it. You die!
There is no you, no more. 
Yes, people may mourn for you, people may miss you, some may celebrate! All for sometime, then they forget eventually. 
But for you that's it! No more balls to play, no more next innings, no more next semister, no more next time. 


So how are you doing? 
Happy? Surviving? Struggling? Any regrets? 

YOLO my friend!!
Have a great time.




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