The Simple Truth of Life

You want some wisdom in your life if you're here. So here comes the truth of the matter. Get ready, because it might not be what you want to hear!

"You can't go back once you've started this journey. You can only go forward."

- Sylvester Stallone, Tulsa King

It's the god-awful truth of the matter. Once you've started the journey, you can't go back. That's the price you're paying. If you didn't know you were paying a price, let me educate you.

When you were born you had very little say so in the matter. Your parents, in a very horny, and possibly drunken state, forgot to wear a condom or use some other form of birth control. Hell, maybe your mother honey trapped your father into knocking her up so she'd get paid, or could use him for some other reason. Maybe Daddy bought a hooker and accidents happen. Or maybe, just maybe, they were actually in love. Based on all the single-parent households and lack of respect for marriage in the 21st century, I'd say the latter was the least likely.

If you want to know, you better ask them! But only if you know who both are. Remember, if you don't know who your father is, that's an awkward discussion to have with Mommy.

Now, let's put each person's personal story aside, and look at the one common denominator. On the day we're born, we're all born the same. That is the last day in your history that the statement is true. All men are created equally. All men/women are humans, and deserve the same basic human rights. That's where it stops. 

The one thing that nobody talks about regularly is what you do with your birthright inheritance. It's the thing you get the day you pop out of your mother's belly, or are taken out by a doctor. As soon as you take that first breath, you have inherited currency. But are you claiming it and using it wisely? 

What's done can't be undone. You can only do better tomorrow. And, it fits right in with how you spend your currency. Wait, nobody told you that you were rich? That's right! Rich! 

You were born, it's your birthday, and you just got the biggest present you're going to ever get. You were just handed 27,375 chances to do anything and everything you can dream of. But what you do with the 3750th chance will decide how your 400th day goes. What you do with your 7500th chance will paint the picture you are living when you are on your 10,000th chance. Have you figured it out yet?

The price we pay is in days, the most valuable currency there is in this world. We sell or trade it most of our adult lives. Some of it we give away, usually in trade for something we want or need. 

Are you spending your currency wisely? Or are you wasting it until you get older? If you don't get sick, end up with a debilitating illness, or wind up in a life you created and end up hating it, you could have more than 27,375 days in this life. From birth to age 75, that's what you have to work with. 

Make the best of it, and don't look back to yesterday. Yesterdays gone. There's no going back to yesterday, and there's no fixing what's done. You can choose to move forward and do better tomorrow than you did today. And most of the world hopes you do, because most of the world roots for everyone to do their best and succeed. The rest, however, is up to you.