Live now

We need to speak about how your twenties are the time to prioritize your happiness and be unabashedly selfish. How it is the time to pursue every dream you have dreamed and tick things off of your bucket list. This is the time to make memories that will make you smile and fill your heart with gratitude years and years later. We will never be this young again.

Before we know it, we will be paying EMIs on home loans, planning annual holidays based on school calendars, struggling with aching bones and reminiscing about our youth.

Your bank account will replenish itself and your manager will be unhappy with you anyway. You have the rest of your life to fill up your savings with money you will never use. Time is the only true currency, and you can never get it back.

So book that ticket, kiss that stranger, get those passport stamps, trek unconquerable peaks, take that diving course, spend a night stargazing, paraglide off a hill, watch more sunrises and sunsets. Take your life and make it the best adventure in the world. Your future you would be proud of you.

So are you letting life happen to you or are you living your life? Are you letting time pass or are using every moment to fill up your treasure chest of memories and experiences? Its a wonderful world and its for us to grasp. Dont think, just live.

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