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Don’t Just Get Through Life, Actually Live It
How to stop unconsciously missing out on life
In this day and age, too many people mindlessly coast through life — millennials especially.
How many times have you heard the phrase, “I’m just trying to get through the day,” or “I’m just trying to get through the week!”
Granted, life can have some difficult periods that we don’t want to go through, but how often does this turn into, “getting through” the month, then “getting through” the year …… When I use the term “get through,” I’m referring to those periods when we aren’t fully conscious or present in life; when we are going through something that we don’t like and end up mindlessly coasting through.
It’s easy to unconsciously fall into this passive, lifeless sort of existence because our lives are essentially an abstraction. You don’t experience life in a single whole period, you live moment by moment. These moments add up to form days, which then make up months and years etc. So you can kind of just passively get through each moment, disregarding it as unimportant, but then they add up. Moments turn into days, days into weeks, weeks into months; next thing you know, you’re at a particular point in your life, not really knowing how you got there, thinking time has just flown by. Sound familiar?
