Life Is Unpredictable & Short — Eat the Dessert First!
Merry Christmas Eve, everyone!
Hope everyone is with the ones they love this holiday season and hope that your heart is a little more giving this time of year to share the joy of one another.
I’m sure most of you will be eating more desert than you ever have in the next few days, and so I figured….why not talk about it.
This brings to mind the saying/quote; ‘Life’s too short, eat the desert first‘.
I want to take a moment to digest that saying and to fully understand…because life really is too short to be anything but happy.
Many think success brings happiness, but rather many don’t realize that happiness is the reason success shows up in your life.
And in order to be your best self, to be happy, to reach your level of success, all you have to do is always eat the dessert first.
This may go against what your mother has taught you with ‘eat your dinner first’, but what I am trying to say is things in life don’t always go in perfect order.
Let’s try to understand it with 3 different points:
1) Life Is A Beautiful Chaos
There is beauty in the imperfect and the chaos of everyday life. Once you see that and once you embrace it, the second part of your life begins. You do not need to wait until the right moment because in reality no one is guaranteed this life. You were gifted this life but death is our reality as we know it. Since that is all we know in this age, why wait to start your life and to create it with the magic you were given? I say you should have the courage to bring forth what is within you and share your treasures with the world.
2) Perfection Is Overrated
Trying to achieve perfection is a dead end road. Perfection, in its definition, is flawless. In reality, perfection is the only impossible thing as we know it on this planet that I believe is unachievable.
What is perfect, in my opinion, is this life. Life has so much to give to us, and there is so many beautiful things that surround us every single day. All we have to do is take a moment to see it and to fully appreciate it. This earth is imperfectly perfect. There is so much beauty in it without it being perfect. In another point, nothing about this life is normal and if you don’t believe that there are any ounce of magic in it, then you may need to look closer.
There is so much beauty in the imperfect and beauty in embracing things for what they are. There is tremendous amounts of beauty in taking action and taking small steps into your goals. I have learned that it is better to make mistakes and learn then to be too timid to start. I started this blog on a whim and had no idea what I was getting myself into, but all I knew was I rather start then to always wonder “what if”.
More often than not, chasing perfection puts you at a bad place because it is not achievable. All that is achievable is being a better person than you were yesterday and the only day that is perfect is today. Live your life each day as a beautiful mess that it is.
3) Your Journey Is Your Own
One of my favorite songs lately has been “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield. I know it is overplayed and perhaps many people don’t like it anymore after the show, “The Hills”, but the other day I was listening to it and I noticed how beautiful the lyrics truly are. It’s funny how the universe gives you things when you need it the most and you don’t notice it when it doesn’t relate to your life.
This song is exactly where I am in my life — which is in its simplest terms, to live my life to the fullest and to live my best life creating it the way I want to. I am at an age where it is time to see what I have to offer to this world and it’s a new chapter in my life. It’s all scary and exciting in one breath.
In the song, I love how she says: “Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.” and “No one else can speak the words on your lips.” Both of those are so incredibly true. They are so simple yet so powerful.
This is your life to live. Don’t apologize for living it the way that you want to live it. If you want to have the best part happen now (aka eat the dessert now), then just do it! Go for it! Don’t wait because I would not want you to waste a single moment in our imperfectly, perfect world. Don’t reach for perfection rather reach for progress and follow your heart.
I hope your journey is meaningful, loving and I hope it makes the little girl or boy proud. I hope you achieve all of your dreams.
Lastly, I hope you always eat the dessert first because this life is unpredictable and imperfectly your own journey to live out. You get to decide to live the best moments now….in this moment right now, how exciting and amazing is that?! Your life is a blank book in which you get to create for yourself in this moment and like Natasha Beddingfield said — the rest is unwritten. Now, go write your own story!
Happy holidays!
Lots of love,
Ozzy
“‘Life’s Too Short’ is repeated often enough to be a cliché, but this time it’s true. You don’t have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It’s not just pointless; it’s painful.” — Seth Godin
