Are you just existing?

In the hustle and bustle of busy adulthood it is easy to look up from life and find that you've aged years and that a chunk of your life has gone by. In today's society, people are encouraged to keep running from place to place, trend to trend, event to event, and so on. This leads to lives that are fast-paced and busy. However, rather than lives well-lived and lived deeply, the majority of people just exist in their life. It is as if they are placeholders in their own story waiting for the day that they can chase after their dreams and goals, but until that day comes just existing in the revolving door that is the daily routine of life.

The time has come to stop existing. You were created for more than simply existing. You were created for more than a basic life of busyness. Rather than trying to exist in a life full of events, you needs to live a full life. This means to take courage and chase after your dreams now. This also means that it is time to get dirty and do the work that prepares you in your current place for your next place.

Existing has bred a mentality of shallow living in the hearts, minds, and souls of people. Wherein people live and move on the surface only and disregard real depth. You were made for the depths. You were created to feel and feel deeply. You were created to care for others deeply, for your heart to break for people even when your own heart has been played, cheated, hurt, broken, betrayed, or destroyed. Do not become callous and begin to simply exist through your life. Choose to live deeply even in pain or sorrow. It is in deep living that you become capable of truly doing life with the people around you.

Whatever you do, do it deeply and with all that is in you.
If it is grieving, grieve deeply.
If it is loving, love deeply.
You must feel and you must venture into the depths and be transparent with those around you. This is not to say that you should live in a constant state of sorrow or defeat if that is what you are feeling. Rather, the point of this thought is that living, really living requires depth, passion, courage, trust, and faith.

So stop existing and start living.