Life starts at 25!


“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
-Abraham Lincoln

This quote is especially for all the 25’s and above out there. First and the foremost, I would like to congratulate you for having successfully survived 25 years on earth. We should be lucky that we were not born in the early Colony of Virginia (17th century) when the life expectancy was less than 25 years. All thanks to the multi-star hospitals and fat medical bills spanning more pages than a research thesis, the world average life expectancy is a healthy 71.4 years. Therefore friends if you have still not thanked God and your parents for keeping you alive, please do it right now!

What next???

This is a question which crosses your mind at least once every single day once you turn 25. You have certainly got your degree (hopefully, unless you are either Bill Gates or Steve jobs or aim to be like them). You are either stereotypically employed or alluringly unemployed. Some of you are married, many others are happily engaged and busy posting your couple pictures on Facebook! A very humble request to all you hyper-show off young couples, please curb the urge to fill our Facebook pages with your PDA. We are totally smitten by the love between the two of you and sincerely apologize for not making it to your uninvited wedding. Yet being bombarded by your couple pictures from pre-wedding photoshoot to honeymoon travels is more torturous than watching TV serials! Above all, most of you are puzzled about where your life is heading. Relax friends, it is no crime to be clueless at 25.

At last, you have gained control over your disobedient teenage hormones. You know what your heart longs for. If you don’t like your job, you have every freedom to quit it. There should be no second thoughts if you want to pursue your post-graduation. Never had the courage to confess your love, do it now. If your heart breaks, let it break. But you are still strong enough to move on. A heart-break is always better than a lifelong regret. Don’t marry just because your parents told so. If you are still letting others make decisions for you, then you have lost your chance to live an amazing life.

You start thinking about life in the real sense when you turn 25. You have already had your share of bad decisions and silly mistakes. First-hand experience of 25 years is no way less to take control of your life. Exercising your freedom of choice gives you an increased sense of responsibility. There is no point in being stuck in a place where you know you will never find happiness. You still have the chance to start all over again. Every decision comes with its own share of pros and cons, but it is up to you to be brave and take the lead. If you succeed, you will be proud to have made it to the top on your own. If you fail, you would have learnt a lesson for life on what not to do. Either way you have nothing to lose.

Wherever you are today, a series of decisions have led you here. You are either happy now or you are not. Just close your eyes and take a deep breath. When you open your eyes, be ready to fight for yourself because nobody is going to do that for you. Don’t waste your time cribbing that you have achieved nothing. You are 25, you can change life.

                  Be proud, you live life on your terms…

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