Ownership

Over the past few weeks I've been thinking about the days we live by all the moments of life we go through. All one can ever ask of life can be to live with a sense of pride, live as if life was a gift given to us and love every moment of it even in the most unseeming of the situations. Who doesn't have some things that they've lived through that they'd really like to take it back. It seems all noble and righteous to say one has no regrets in life but I disagree. I think the key is not to not have any regrets or things that you'd rather do in a different way, but to, own it !

Much has been told time and again about doing what you like, putting your passion to work so that work seems like play and all that.
What really is being said is to " Own it". Do good or bad. Just do something and whatever it is that you do, do it the best you can.

Something that constantly comes to my mind when there is a situation I would rather like it go some other way than the current is:
" Its your life now. What are you going to do about it ?"

Much of time goes by either trapped in the burden of the past or dreaming of the future but " This now is life". We'll have to be present for it or else we'll miss it.

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