I often sit back and analyse people on the tube or people walking in the streets whilst waiting for a friend. People rushing around, brief cases in their hands, suited and booted, heels and tight skirts. Running errands, attending meetings, speeding home to their families and singletons ready for a night out in the city on the weekends.
Simply getting inspired by watching other people. Everyone is so different in their own way, looks, personalities and dress sense. Trying to figure out what they are all about? What goes through their mind? Are they going to get all their work done before the weekend or are they going to get that promotion?
I find myself wondering, what are they living for? Do they go to work, to bring in a basic wage to put meals on the table for their families, seven days a week, nine to five? Or are they living the only life they have?
This quote that stands out to me “Are you really living life, or are you just paying bills until you die?”. I found myself out to dinner with my sister one evening, waitresses and waiters that are in their twenties rushing around bussing tables earning a wage to pay their rent and bills. Working late night shifts, rising early and sleeping late. Is that what you want to do for the rest of your life?
Is that all life is about? Working to pay the bills? No! Life is a precious thing that many people take for granted. A chance you get to make your time on this planet something special, find yourself and do something so extravagant that people will still be talking about you after your demise.
I find myself in London, one of the biggest cities, where no dream is too small. If there is a will, there is a way. As a university student, studying hard to get a well paid job. However, I aspire high and have a much bigger dream that a nine to five job. I want to travel the world, make it all my home. I want to own multiple homes, many horses, various expensive cars and most of all I want to LIVE.
My grandma is my biggest inspiration, in her mid-nineties, she gives me the best life advice about what I should do to get the most out of it. Even at her age, she wishes she did a lot more in her youth and spent less time working.
Leave your routine behind, quit your job or something crazy and start living your life. Have no regrets. The last thing I want as pensioner is to regret what I did not do or achieve during my youth. This world is enormous, there are so many adventures to experience, some so exhilarating that even the words in the english language cannot describe.
This world will not wait for you… Every day that is spent doing something you hate, is a day you will never get back. Remember that.
So, what are you waiting for?
