Life is Active.
To live, one must choose to participate. One can be alive, but do nothing, are they truly alive? Not to me. You have to struggle with life, learn its lessons, take the lumps, and the good times while you keep striding forward. Work on making yourself a better person, daily. Have a Clear goal, even if it seems completely unattainable now. If you struggle and strive for it, anything can happen. Life is fluid, once a day has past, it will never happen again. Live each day, pressing for your goal. Find your way past the obstacles life puts in your path, never stopping, never slowing. Its easy to get sucked into a rut, from which you find you dont want to get out of, because its soooo much easier just to stay there. That isnt Living. That is being alive. I have found, that I would rather live, truly live, for 1 day, than be "alive" for 60 years. Without change, you can not learn and evolve. You can not come that one step closer to your goal which seemed unattainable at one point, but as you keep your eyes on it, keep working for it, it gets closer, little by little.
If you have to chose. Live.
Alive is just death while you still draw breath.
Joshua Adam Strong
April 23rd, 2012