Are you living meaningfully, or just meaninglessly waiting to die?

[rose_noire]

We wake up and check our phone first, not our heart. We check who liked us, who commented, who watched our story. We start our day feeding our ego before we even say thank you for another breath. We forget we were given today. We did not earn today. God gave today and what do we do with today? We waste it.

We waste it arguing to be right. We waste it proving we are better. We waste it scrolling lives that are not ours, comparing our behind the scenes to someone else's highlight reel. We waste it being offended.

We are too sensitive for the wrong things and too numb for the right things.

We cry for hours when we lose our phone, but we don't cry when we lose connection with our own parents. We panic when followers drop, but we don't panic when character drops. We are proud of things we should be ashamed of, and ashamed of things we should be proud of.

Every second you waste will never return. Never. Not 1 second. You can get money back. You can get a job back. You cannot get time back. Time is the only currency you spend without knowing your balance. And every day, your balance gets smaller.

Every birthday is not a party, it's a countdown. We celebrate with cake and music, but heaven counts down. 1 year less to make it right. 1 year closer to your name on a stone. 1 year closer to people standing over you, saying good things or saying nothing because there is nothing good to say.

What will they say? Have you ever thought about that?

This is your mirror. I am still lacking too. Look at your life today. Not tomorrow but Today

Are you loving the people who love you, or are you loving the validation of strangers?

Are you present in your own life, or are you just watching other people's lives?

Are you healing, or are you just pretending you are healed while hurting everyone around you?

Are you growing, or are you just getting older?

Are you truly living, or just waiting to die while pretending you have time? You save time, but who will save your wasted life?

[capriVib]

Most people try to give life meaning by traveling around and buying the things they want, like a house, a car, or a phone.


​You can still find real meaning, though. Some do it by helping people through work they love, and others turn to faith.


​Also, don't pay attention to the haters. Some people just live for drama and disagree with everything instead of simply moving on.

[rose_noire]

Thank you for this. Beautifully said.

Yes, meaning isn't bought or visited, it's lived.

Through love, through work that helps, through faith.

Thank you for adding light here.

[exitseven]

I try to live meaningfully but sometimes I feel like I am stuck in God's waiting room.

[strateguy632]

superb! as usual 👍🥇

[OneViewpoint]

Methinks you overstate your case a wee bit.

Once again, don’t let social media and the internet give you a false sense of the state of society and fill you with despair.

Not everyone is tethered to their phone like it’s their carotid artery.

I do know friends like that. But that’s not me. And yeah I’m mindful of how I use my time all day every day.

[EmmaMary]

Yet more pathetic dribble from your religious platform.

[rose_noire]

You took time to comment on something you call pathetic.

Who's really wasting time here?

[EmmaMary]

I didn't even bother reading it, and I doubt very much whether many will.

[rose_noire]

You didn't read it, yet you came back twice.

It hit something, didn't it?

[EmmaMary]

Finally, next time please put all this nonsense into the correct topic (Religion & Spirituality)... Thank you.

[rose_noire]

Thank you.

This isn't about religion. It's about time and time concerns everyone.

[EmmaMary]

Really?

So why mention all that fucking "God" bollox?

[rose_noire]

Because whether you call it God, time, or conscience the question stays the same.

What are you doing with the time you have left?

[EmmaMary]

Time left, meaning what exactly?

[rose_noire]

Meaning the countdown already started.

You came with an expiry date, you just don't know when.

So the only real question is, will you die having lived, or just having waited?

[EmmaMary]

What a load of fucking bullshit! 🙂‍↔️

Just go back to preaching all this crap in your so-called fucking church.

[rose_noire]

I hear you.

Not everyone is ready for this conversation. I wish you peace.

[sage2021]

@EmmaMary

I had a hard time deciding whether to say something here or not, but I read everything that you wrote here and I am shocked 😲 at what you wrote to be honest.
You're always saying how happy you are and how wonderful your life is and want people to be envious of your life, yet you say things like this? 🤔

[EmmaMary]

@sage2021

Not once have I ever mentioned, or even remotely suggested that I want or wish others to be envious of my life.

[rose_noire]

@sage2021 Sage, thank you. Thank you for actually reading it.

Most people comment on what they didn't read. You read.

That is the whole point of the post, how we spend our time.

Some spend it to be offended, some spend it to understand.

You chose to understand. That is meaningful. I appreciate you, Sage.

Wishing you a meaningful day with the time you have left. 🤍

[rose_noire]

@EmmaMary Understood, Emma. That was between you and Sage.

My post was never about envy.

It was about time and how we choose to spend what little we have left.

Some spend it proving a point, some spend it finding peace.

I choose peace. Wishing you well.

[sage2021]

@EmmaMary

You're right you didn't mention anything about people being envious of you in this particular question. It's just the pictures you paint in your opinions about your wonderful life and that's all I meant.
I'm shocked that you used the "F" word and God in the same sentence. I would have never expected that from you. 😔

[EmmaMary]

@sage2021

I have never set out in any of my posts/comments to deliberately "paint" any pictures whatsoever of my lifestyle.

What others form in their imagination is purely of their choosing.

I've never made any secrets whatsoever of my totally agnostic thoughts and personal beliefs.

[sage2021]

If you say so.🤷🏼‍♀️

[strateguy632]

huh time is precious? we have all day long. everything takes forever to accomplish. the day drags on. people trying to 'kill time'. but i have purpose in my life and goals.

[AngryCarl3]

The second one. Except I'm actively trying not to die.

[Nikki1989]

You need some serious therapy.

[rose_noire]

Maybe I do.

Healing made me speak. What made you comment?

[NathanDavis]

happily