on your last day

to live life as if each day is your last one is overwhelming; but I think this age-old sentiment really holds some weight. look at each day in your life.

on your last day, is this how you were meant to live?

The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.

— Jessica Hische

Learning to make crumb cake (Taken with instagram)

Learning to make crumb cake (Taken with instagram)

People high on exercise are holding the key to the box with the answers to all the world’s problems inside..

I took my very first kettlebell kickboxing class tonight, and if by tomorrow I haven’t lost full function and feeling in my neck/back/ass/inner thighs, it will be a huge success. Similar to every spin instructor I’ve ever had, my fiery little kettlebell teacher left us with a little bit of wisdom, if you were looking to listen. She said, “I’ve never been flexible, because I never thought stretching was that important. So as we finish tonight we are going to hold every stretch for one minute because I want you to be better than me. Sometimes we learn from our own mistakes, but sometimes we learn from each other’s mistakes.” 

It really reminded me how much of life is ‘learn as you go.’ Which is a pretty comforting feeling when you’re walking around feeling like you should have more answers. I guess the point here is to adapt a more content mentality. One which understands that constantly searching for answers means you’re always willing to grow.

The older I get the more it is clear to me that mistakes happen purely to help you get a glimpse of what was never written for you, and that life is a puzzle that comes together piece by piece, and can only be understood as a whole picture at the very end.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

—Mark Twain (via 6twenty1)

Hindsight Schmindsight

Today I am grateful for being old enough to recognize the people and things that are good, and appreciate them as they are happening.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

—–Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973