Rous - L.I.F.E

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick

Don't lose faith

I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going

Was that I loved what I did

You've got to find what you love

And that is true for work as it is for your lovers

Your work's going to fill a large part of your life

And the only way to be truly satisfied

Is to do what you believe is great work

And the only way to do great work

Is to love what you do

If you haven't found it yet

Keep looking, and don't settle

As with all matters of the heart

You'll know when you find it

And, like any great relationship

It just gets better and better as the years roll on

So keep looking, don't settle

My third story was about death

When I was 17

I read a quote that went something like

"if you live each day as if it was your last

Someday you'll most certainly be right

It made an impression on me

And since then, for the past 33 years

I've looked in mirror every morning and asked myself

If today were the last day of my life

Would I want to do what I'm about to do today

And whenever the answer has been "No"

For too many days in a row

I know I need to change something

Remembering that I'll be dead soon

Is the most important I've ever encountered

To help me make the big choices in life

Because almost everything

All external expectations, all pride

All fear of embarrassment of failure

These things just fall away in the face of death

Living only what is truly important

Remembering that you're going to die

Is the best way I know

To avoid the trap of thinking

You have something to lose

No one wants to die

Even people who want to go to Heaven

Don't wan die to get there

And yet, death is the destination we all share

No one has ever escaped it

And that is, as it should be

Because death is every likely the single best invention of life

It's life's change agent

It clears out the old to make way for the new

Right now, the new is you

Your time is limited

So don't waste it living in someone else's life

Don't be trapped by dogma

which is living with the results of other people's thinking

Don't let the noise

And others' opinions drown out your own inner voice

And most important

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition

They somehow already know

What you truly want to become

Everything else is secondary