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Live For Today

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If our tomorrow is as uncertain as a 50/50 chance in a game of life, then why do we still spend our days worrying about tomorrow? If we wake up each day and go after our most passionate goals, we will do happiness itself a favor and create our own joy and contentment. A local Khmer girl and her son. We worked together at a hostel on Koh Rong island, Cambodia   We can go after our goals as if each day will be our last one. Time is an invention of the universe and time cannot separate from us. We are it. So why are we so afraid of our own shadows? We need to become aware of the beauties of life in all of its forms; including its insecurities. We need to not worry about whether tomorrow is going to happen or not. It will happen on its own, with or without you. But you are a part of it all.  You are more than enough. Today is more than enough. If we can live in a way that makes us the happiest, why do we go on playing according to some rules made by...

Finding a Good Excuse not to Make Excuses

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I look towards the purple and blue evening sky and wonder about how little we truly know about ourselves and about the world we live in. About where we come from and what is the true purpose of our existence. We cover our eyes and refuse to see anything other than the known, the comfortable, the safe. There may be comfort within safety. The recognition of a new day, which was the same as the day before, which was exactly the same as the one before that, is a terrible curse. It’s a freedom which people don’t even understand that they are missing. It’s a beautiful escape into the traps of time, perception and comprehension. We hover around and around looking everywhere outwards just so we wouldn’t have to look inside. Just so we would be safe within the chains of the reality which is already rigged for us. It’s a conditioned society that bases its beliefs on a pre-made concept of life. It isn’t an organic model. It’s a continuation of a previous model. This way of thinking ...