#YLEM

You only live once? 

That is what they tell me

Does that mean I only have ONE oppurtunity to start living?

I sit around, I wait around. 

I wait for my friends to stop arguing, for a boy to like me, for my parents to understand me

I wait and wait

Tapping my foot and hoping, praying that something, anything, will happen to me. 

Anything that will make my heart skip a beat, my eyes glaze over, my voice scream out in pure joy

When will my life begin? 

I want to live. 

I want to visit cities far away, without having an anxiety attack every time I go on a plane

I want to watch the sun set on the beach and fall asleep in the warm sand

I want to run, run fast, run swift, through open fields, like a scene out of a movie

Nothing but me and the world

I feel trapped. 

Expectations, stress, money, drama...

I am sick of spending my days in front of a computer screen, too afraid to experience life

I want to fulfill the YOLO stigma but not by getting drunk and high

but by L I V I N G my life 

Seventeen years old and already feeling like I've wasted time 

Time is all we have, really

This is my time

I need to run, to laugh, to dance, to smile

I need to try new foods, see more live music, buy new clothes, meet  new people

You only live once they say 

But although we only have one life

We have millions of moments to live and love

We live every day, not just one time

Life itself is not once thing, one experience

It is many, hundreds, thousands, millions, billions of experiences

Every second is the opportunity for a new way of living, a new life

We live when we laugh, when we cry

We don't live once, we live every day, we live...infinitely

Until the day we die we are always living, always learning

YOLO should not an excuse; lets get drunk now because this is our only time to live

Every day is a new time to live

And that, makes one life, feel like more than enough. 

So if I truly want to, need to start living

This moment is as good as any 

To begin. 

#YLEM or You Live Every Moment.