2007-09-14 15:54:04 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
only you can persuade yourself to get out there and "really live" life to the fullest. However, having said that here's some suggestions I have found in the little book of life someone gave me once.(I believe that was actually the title of the book.)
Watch a sunset with someone you love.
Be awake and marvel at a sunrise alone or with someone you love.
Take a walk in the rain some time.
Baby sit a small child- toddler or a bit older, (your own or a friend's) and marvel at their ability to find fun and happiness in a box/ with a ball/ chasing their shadow/ playing in water/chasing bubbles/chasing a balloon.
Try and take time out of your day to do something special for yourself: buy an ice cream. buy a mocha, sit in the park and throw breadcrumbs at the pigeons, buy a great new tie, or buy a rose for yourself and tell everyone it's your birthday....or you have an admirer and you don't know who.
Laugh a little every day. Whether it's a joke of the day on email, or you watch someone's comedy show.
Never forget your friends and your family. Call now and then to say "hello" or to say" I love you". They appreciate it even if they don't tell you so.
Never pass up a chance to travel. Places may be different, but people are basically the same. Get out there and see for yourself. Try and go to places that interest you. Trace your heritage. Join in a local tradition like running of the bulls in Spain, or any number of festivals throughout the year in North America and beyond.
Whatever you try, strive to do your best, and don't quit half way! In business and life, that's good advice, no matter who you are.
Enrich your life with the arts; Photography can be an art, Learn to dance, learn an instrument, see a live orchestra perform one time, or a jazz musician with The BLUES from deep within. Go out on a patriotic holiday and hear a live marching band/orchestra perform patriotic songs. Some of the Souza marches with gunfire sounds are amazing. Visit an art gallery and really look at the work these artists created. Some of the modern stuff is really amazing.
Never stop learning. Even if you only learn some new fact about something you'll never use again, keep your brain sharp by keeping new information coming in.
Allow yourself a sick day if you are actually ill. Working thru your illness may cause a backlash at work if you go and contaminate every piece of equipment with your germs!
Never give up on your DREAMS/WISHLIST. For example: If you have always wanted to see what it's like to drive a race car get online and find out the cost of a racing school for average people at the nearest track. they do exist and my father is still grinning about it a year later! Go bungee jumping, or see Australia, or build that model car/real hot rod!
Give your time as a volunteer, and/or give donations to real charities you believe in, whenever you can spare a few dollars. You may be amazed how full your heart will feel when you share your time and give back to people who have less than you. Write letters to soldiers away from home during regular days and holidays. visit Veterans who live in the hospital, most are very grateful...but ask at the front desk first who would be receptive to visitors, of course. Or send the hospital vets cards and letters too.
Share your life with someone. That's a sure way to living life. When you share, you give of yourself, and you allow another to give to you. Whether it be a mate, or a faithful pet, or a best friend.
Learn how to cook. We spend hundreds of hours over the course of a year eating & drinking. Why not learn to make special dishes for yourself and your loved ones? Save the money you'd waste going out and impress them by staying home instead! Become a wine afficionado, or at least know the variety that compliments your food the best.
If you had some type of organized faith taught to you as a child, maybe you should reconnect with it now. It might ease some of your stress. Help you create a new path for your future?
Good Luck & many Blessings to you! I hope you don't find my answers too "hippie wild". I was honest, because I thought that's what you wanted. However, these are mostly my observations and suggestions I've seen for a well-rounded life.
2007-09-14 16:51:52 · answer #1 · answered by michelle_l_b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Study lucid dreaming and learn how to do it. They say you spend something like 30% of your life sleeping. Well...if you are just sleeping or vaguely remember your dreams, then that would mean you spent 30% of your life dormant. Lucid dreaming is being aware and conscious that you are dreaming. It's the wildest thing! I wish there was something to compare it to but there really isn't. But I'll try...it's just like waking life, just as it is now, except its not...its a dream, and everyone you talk to acts they way you would perceive them. Your mind is on auto pilot and everything feels and smells the same, but the colors are more vivid. And depending on how good you are, the skies the limit.
2016-05-19 23:06:44 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One thing above any other will lead you to a full life...
Choose to be happy.
In everything, find the good. While sometimes not easy or obvious, it is nevertheless present.
Like every emotion, being happy is contagious. A happy person is a person people want to be around, sometimes for no reason other than they are a happy person.
I could go on, but if you think about it you will see it is a damn good start if nothing else.
2007-09-14 16:10:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOVE. tell those you love that you do. live with no regrets. have FAITH that everything will be okay even when it might look like it doesn't. HOPE for everything good. don't be afraid to hear other people out, to hear what they have to say and have an open mind about it. learn what you can whenever you can about anything. and most of all, TRUST in the LORD with all your heart and don't lean on your own understanding. in all your ways acknowledge HIM and HE will make your path straight.
2007-09-14 17:19:24 · answer #4 · answered by Marie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my favorite quotations:
"Do something every day that scares you."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
That would be a good place to start, although a full life may not necessarily be a long one!
2007-09-14 16:01:50 · answer #5 · answered by bjg123_456 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen to your heart and follow what you wish to do or be. Many people will tell you all kind of things to do, but are you really interested? You are divine and you have guidance within you to take you to all that you wish in this life. Listen and go for it!
2007-09-14 16:00:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"He who saves his life will loose it, he who looses his life will find it." I think that a full life is a matter of loss and minuses. Loss of pride and self absorption, loss of excessive reflection on the self. Giving away affection, resources, and most of all, time. Living to serve and freedom from the bondage of self!
2007-09-14 16:27:09 · answer #7 · answered by almac 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's my life motto: Life is short! Take chances and LIVE IT! So you know, go bunjee jumping, skydiving, live a week in the wilderness. Do whatever it takes to TAKE CHANCES!
2007-09-14 16:00:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My motto in life is "live every day as if it is your last because one day your going to be right" also do onto other as you would wish done onto you
2007-09-14 16:02:01 · answer #9 · answered by paul596524 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some rules that I've been trying to live by:
* not to be scared to do things, you'll always regret not trying!
* find new things to do
* be kind to others - ha, i have yet to conquer that
* know how to handle your responsibilities
2007-09-14 16:03:03 · answer #10 · answered by ilovecoach 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋