YODO Bitch

The current self is comprised of the many previous stages and fragments of the past self.

It is however only a tiny glimpse of and a fading memory (prone to inaccurate recall) to, our future self.

Now, if only I had remembered that before realizing it just now, I wonder how different things might have been in the years to come.

I know this much by now though...
1. Everything, EVERYTHING, comes at a price.
2. I will never make anyone happy and nobody will ever make me happy.
This much we must do for ourselves and so live accordingly remembering that the greater happiness often comes at the expense of the lesser.

We must ask ourselves...
What is success and what is failure?
Is the reward worth the cost?

Whatever we may surmise about either in our lifetimes, right or wrong, true or false, will be in all likelihood unknowable.

The road to insurmountable difficulty is paved with almost irresistible ease, so we are better served to count the cost, make our choices and move on in our efforts to make anything "better" (whatever that means).

Be wary however, no man is an island unto themselves and many choices to affect change are mere crap shoots since they require a best guess versus actually knowing what the response might actually be.

Consequently in our quest for what seems better we may unknowingly and irreversibly sacrifice what was actually best... God only knows.

So the finite struggles to understand the infinite and in the process winds up wasting so much opportunity to simply enjoy what the infinite has intended us to.

The truth is a beautiful mirror which those who see dare not look into for fear of truly seeing themselves. Only the blind or insanely delusional are capable of staring ceaselessly at their own reflection.

YOLO?
Wrong.
You live everyday.
You only die once.

Dying is easy.
Living is a bitch.