When will my life begin?

“I'm just waiting for my life to start!” one bored graduate told me. “I just want things to happen.”

The funny thing about life is that it happens. It always happens, and quite frankly, my dear, it does not give a damn whether you’re ready for it or not. Because the nature of life, what being alive actually consists of, is things happening.

Some of it happens inside of you. There’s that little internal clock-work tangle of lungs and capillaries and endoplasmic reticulums (reticululi?) making things happen.

Then there’s that blasted outside (you know; the thing you can’t really experience through the internet. Excellent graphics though). It consists of things happening: the purr of car engine reminding you that other human-things are living out their lives and effecting their change; the sweet and innocent sound of the black bird instantly informing you that it’s going to starve to death and that is would quite like to mate with somebody now. These living creatures make things happen.

Even without human impulse, even without you caring, the world outside happens. The sea keeps eating the rocks. The magma below the crust keeps tossing together continents in it’s rampant joy, regardless of how many tsunami’s this results in. Somewhere, billions of light years away, a star will explode. It’ll be amazing. No one will see it. But it will explode none the less. Things happen.

Then one day, it will stop. Everything that can have happened will have happened. Things will cease to happen.

The difference between the sea’s apathy and the apathy you sometimes go through, is that the sea’s is not a choice. You do have a choice. Be like the sea- let the only things that happen be the innate clockwork. Or choose to make things happen. Create around the Kipple. Create. Make. Imagine. Be more than you ever thought you could.

Life, on Earth, happens. Then life on Earth stops.

It stops.

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But there’s something in between. Stop waiting for things to happen- life happens. It’s happening to you right now. So go and use it. Because even by taking a breath, you are already changing the world. And that is just the start of how amazing you can be.

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Note from the Author:

Hello all. Sorry It’s been a long time since my last post. The reason is life happened. First there was a holiday, then there was hoping I’d get into uni, then there was organising for uni, then there was arriving at uni and then settling in at uni. Now that life has ordained to give me back some time to do things I love, I'm back to writing. I hope you found today’s post at least a little thought provoking. I’d love to hear back from you, so please comment. 10 points to the Hogwart’s House of your choice if you get the Kipple reference.

~Alice