TIME

Life can be summed up by just using some simple math.
168 hours in a week
672 hours in a month
8,064 hours in a year

And this last number might surprise you just as much as it did me. Say we live until we're 80 years old which is a pretty long life. This is the amount of time we're on this earth.
645,120 hours

That's it. Doesn't seem like a lot does it? At first I was thinking at the very least we'd be on this earth for a million hours. But I wasn't close. Now some people live past the age of 80 and hopefully we all live well into our hundreds but the average life expectancy is around 80 years old. So it poses a good question for us. How are living our lives?? Are we happy? Are we making the most of every day? Are we wasting time feeling sorry for ourselves? Are we waiting for the clock to run out or are we seizing each day that we have on earth?

"Tomorrow will eventually come and yesterday has already passed so concentrate on today and make the most of it"

Me and one of my friends were talking about facebook status's (true story) the other day. If you want to start your day off feeling depressed just read some of your friends postings. "FML" "I hate Mondays" "Work sucks" "Just broke up with my boyfriend/girlfriend I feel so lost" "Wish everything can fade to black" "I hate everyone don't message me". Some of these are obviously cries for help but is life really that bad? I've talked before about how theres always someone in a situation worse than your own, and some of those people are trying to make the most out of the hand they were dealt and improve their situation. Why waste time feeling sorry for yourself? Are Mondays that bad? How about when we didn't have Mondays? When there was no calendar did cavemen wake up one day grumpier than another day? I don't get it and I don't think I ever will. Mondays to me mean I have another day on this earth to improve on the last one.

Now that doesn't mean we don't have bad days, everyone does. But a bad day sometimes turns into a bad week and then a bad month and the next thing you know you're having a horrible year. Don't waste time sweating the small stuff. When you wake up be happy that you just accomplished something that about 145,000 other people didn't do that morning. (that's around the number of people who die each day around the world) I'm positive some of them would love to be in your situation right now.

"There are no guarantees in life except for how you decide to live it."

As we get older we start to reflect back on our lives, we start saying things like "If only i would of did this when I was younger" or "I wish I would of put more time into this". Well what if we started doing some of those things now while we can. You don't have to be 80 to have a bucket list. Start writing down things that you want to do or places that you want to see in your lifetime. I've never been to Europe before and until recently I never really had any interest in going but now I ask myself, how could I not go? I would love to see the history that I've always read about in school and get a chance to experience different cultures. So that one is up on the list.

"Time will make dreams become memories."

Enjoy your life. Even the most difficult times have a silver lining, and maybe that silver lining is that you got a chance to live another day.