Lust for Life

"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them,they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them"
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) French artist

One's will should be that of living life with a joie de vivre enjoying the simple pleasures which should not be taken forgranted. Life is to short trying to understand what might have gone wrong in the past - things will go wrong in our lives and whether trivial or serious each can have a strong effect in our emotions, which if allowed to, can send one into a deep spiral of sadness and misery.

Although I have certain moments when I feel that the world is crashing on me, I try to make the effort to stop and think at what my life is really all about. I try to take comfort in the fact that I had a happy childhood and not think that in general I had a miserable life at school.

I try to think of how lucky that I have found good friends in the past years and not dwell on the fact that in reality I did not keep contact with most of my school friends.

I look at past successes - be it from a professional or personal perspective and enjoy the greater sense of achievement when realising that the road leading towards these successes was a bumpy ride.

I think of my to do list - things I want to do before I die - I might not necessarily achieve them but they are there for the taking.

At the end of the day it's all up to me!!!!