to short or to long?

ya, i know sometime we feel it is so short sometime we feel it is so long....all depends on out mood. But with overall...our life is too short and we have only 1 life for living with it....

the events in our lives have a lot to do with the feeling of life is to long. sometimes when we get very stressed out we wounder why is life so complicated and long. but when things are going ok or we cant seem to get a break or cant seem to get eveything we need to done or we feel we a re missing out on the small things in our life at that moment in time that is when we truely realize that life is way to short to take for granted. atleast that is the way i see it.

there are so many things that we go thro or that we do and then we later say that was a waste of my time or that is 30 minutes ill never get back. once we have already done it it is to late and we have "wasted our time" and like you said we can never get it back. then we feel like it was all for nothing and i guess that is where we get the feeling that life is to short to get things done and achieve the goals that we want to achieve before we die.

life is something that should not be wasted and many people do waste their life by hating on others and there truely is no point in that. in order to succeed in life you need to be happy eith your self and satisfies with the way things are going so i agree with you completely on this. most people i have heard talk about this before i posted this discussion said there really is no right or wrong answer to this question because it all falls doen to the individual person. it comes down to the way they feel and the way they use their life to their advantage. thank you for the great comment :)

i couldnt have said that better my self. i have heard a lot of people talk about how old they want to live til and in my opinion i want to live as long as i can and enjoy every minute of it. yes my life will have its ups and its downs but as long as i make it a good life as you siad it will be good enough for me no matter what age i die at. atleast i will die happy :)

i can understand that. i guess it would be hard to welcome it if you havent accepted and done as you wanted in your life.

that is a very good point. a persons life can only be determined by that person and the things they do. i learned that lesson the hard way but i am trying to stop worrying as much about the past and the future but to worry about the say as it comes and to tackle everything that life throws at me during that point in time in the day. i try to take it step by step and one foot at a time :)

i learned this the hard way but i agree with you 100% that is the best way to live you life byputting 1 foot in front of the other. i use to wounder why god would do the things he does in my life but it is like a country song that i like "unanswered prayers" it says that some of god greatest gifts are unanswered payers and it is true :) there is a lot that i wanted when i was younger but now that i am older i am glad it didnt work then because it has gotten me where i am today :)

that is the best way to look at things. i use to look at the past and i guess i would say i even dwelled on it a little which made life seem so long. specilly when i was in high school but now that i am older i see that life it truely to short. no one truely knows when their time will come and you are right it could be tomorrow and if we look to far ahead or to far behind us we will miss out on a lot of things that are right there in front of us at that given time. thank you for the great response. i wish everyone could think the way you do :) it is a good way to look at life and a good way that everyone should live their life before it is to late :) but like you said it does seem like both at times and that all really depends on the things that happen in ones life. life is what we make of it....

You're quite welcome; life is a very interesting topic to discuss and thank you for initiating the discussion. I think all life is interesting, important, and even sometimes mysterious, from the 8 day old person to an 80 year old person. The 8 day old is the mysterious part, as you can't possibly predict what they will accomplish in their lifetime. The 80 year old can tell you first hand about events most people would have to read in a history book. The 8 day old is a clean slate, ready to accept and process knowledge, perhaps in ways we cannot imagine. Just ask the 80 year old if 40 years ago he imagined he would be typing responses on a keyboard, with words appearing on an LCD screen that allowed him to share his knowledge with anyone, anywhere in the world, in mere seconds?

i agree life is a very interesting topic to me also. there is always something to talk about when it comes to someones life. i never looked at it like that bit i see what you mean about the 8 yr old and the 80 yr old. i always love to sit and listen to an older person because like you said they can tell you real life events that happened to them during the things that are written in the books. they always have the best stories :) i am sue they would say no haha. i know i am only 24 but when i was younger i would imagine electic/solar cars, the robo life preservers (emily is its name *i saw it on the news yesturday), talking to our cell phones, ect. there is a long list of things i didnt think would happen in my lifetime.

i agree it does seem long at the time but i never thought about it but when you look in the past it feels like it went by so quick and we missed so much.

yes either answer can techinically be correct it just all depends on the events that are going on in ones life at that point in time. it does also depend on what you do or how you act also. i dont think i could have said that better myself. everyone has thier own life and their own reasons for the way they feel about life.

i am 24 years old and i feel like i am running thro life and time will just get away from me. i agree with your saying about "if you dont cherish time it will get away from you" bevause that is the way i feel to. i learned the hard way i have to cherish the time i have because i cant get that back and i am still not cherishing like i should so i am still working on that lol

that is very true it seems like by the time college is over and you spend your life working to save money and like you said do or get all the things you wanted as a child you are old and there is no time to really enjoy the life that you have created for your self or it is to late to really finish all the things you wanted to do before you die which would include having a family with someone you love. i was one of the lucky ones to have already found that but i have so much more that i want to accomplish and i just not sure there is enough time in a lifetime to do it all. thank you for the great response :)