"The greatest motivation of all is in knowing that everything is not permanent."
Early morning, as I wrote this self-made quote on my diary (not even knowing whether someone breathing or stopped breathing has already formulated the same group of words), I wonder how Steve Jobs turned into motivation the awareness of his disease and the question "If this is the last day of your life...?"
Late in the evening, I deeply thought about the end - the end of the day, the end of my two year bond in the company, the end of my twenties, the end of my life. And I felt that surge of feeling of regretting what you have done instead of what you not ought to do; the potential I can harness if I remove away all the expectations from other, all the worries and all the fears I self-created. Knowing there is an end is like knowing that you have to fully live your life. YOLO. You only live once as what they say, so as Steve Jobs.
It was a practice: to think of the things you ought to regret if this was the end - of the day, of your youth, of your life. Yes, it was much easy to stay in that zone where you live comfortably, where you live with the norms and cultures of others, where you feel safe. Yes, exploring what is outside of that zone seems terrifying but try to listen to that inner self of yours that tells you to took a little step outside, that whispers to you ambitions that you burned deeply. Trying sometimes hurts, but never trying is like dying.
