It's got your name on it

You're going to die, I can guarantee it; I don't know when or how but I know it'll happen. I'll die too of course, maybe today or tomorrow, maybe months or years from now I know not which although, like every human on the planet, I know I'll die. The good part about it is that I'm not dead yet and neither are you; we're in this thing we all get to experience, this thing called life, and it's got your name on it so I reckon it's something we should all take the responsibility to own!

This life, the thing that you wake up to each morning, is yours - it's unique to you - and what happens in it, how you think and act, the attitudes and outcomes you have, are largely up to you. Sure, there's things that are outside of your control, but ultimately you have the ability to influence your life, guide it towards what you'd like to gain from it and make choices about how it goes along the way.

Do we have the time to waste? Possibly I suppose, but should we risk wasting any of our lives? I don't know, that's up to the individual, but for me, wasting my life doesn't seem the best use of whatever time I have and because my life has my name on it...well, I feel obligated to take some control of it, to design and create life in the way I wish it to be. It's about ownership and having responsibility for my own outcomes and most of my life has been spent following that ethos and the paths it's led me to travel. Do I have a perfect life because of it? Nope, perfection in life is impossible and a fools errand, but my life is certainly better than it would be should I have not taken that ownership and responsibility.

I was thinking about this today, owning our lives, and taking responsibility for it, and decided I was mostly happy with how I have done so; could I have done better with it? Yes, that's always a yes answer, but I'm content with what I've done over all.

I wondered about others also, not that it's any of my business if people waste their own time of course, but I wondered all the same. Wasting time or life is subjective though I guess and what I see as a waste others may see as valid and constructive although, let's be honest, there's so many people out there wasting their lives with nonsensical things, thoughts, behaviours and actions, it's a plague in modern society, and I wonder when the penny might drop; I wonder when they might realise that time doesn't come around a second time...neither does life.

Life...it's got your name on it and I wonder what that means for you?

Feel free to drop a few words into the comments if you want to share some thoughts on the topic, I'm interested to hear them and I'll always respond.