Living

"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die today."
--James Dean

I've been thinking about this quote lately. I identify with the first part, definitely. I have big dreams. There's so much that I want to do, so many places I want to go, so many things I want to see. However, I don't know about the second part. I have a great life and I've done lots of amazing things so far during it, but I want to really make something of it. I want to break away from whatever it is that's holding me back from making those dreams happen. I want to be able to say I really lived.

Someone I went to college with moved to Paris after graduation. That was his dream, and he did it. Another friend of mine is in Louisville for a year as an acting apprentice. A third is in Chicago doing a volunteer program. They are experiencing things, they are fulfilling dreams, they are living. I want to live. I want to take chances. I want to do something good.

I recently applied for an acting apprenticeship, and registered on a website for volunteer services. I feel like both of these would be fantastic experiences for me. Not only would I be seeing a new part of the country, but I'd be doing something really cool while I was there. I feel as though an experience like either of those could change my life.

For now, I'm living each day as it comes and accepting whatever life throws at me with open arms. I hope life takes me to tons of amazing places; I hope I get to live.

"There is hope for me yet
Because God won't forget
All the plans He's made for me
I have to wait and see.
He's not finished with me yet
He's not finished with me yet."
--Brandon Heath