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**kiddbjj** · 03-18-2007, 05:52 PM

anybody?

**Tant01** · 03-18-2007, 06:21 PM

Sure... It means (to me) that we should cherish our very existance. Daily we should pause to meditate on the many blessings in life.

To enjoy things like clean air where and when you find it and to avoid trouble of any knid that might endanger your peace. I had to learn this the hard way...

One of the four horsemen of the apocalypse is said to hold scales and offer a day's ration for a day's wages. Such are the times we live in my friend.

It means (again, to ME) that mortality makes us all wish we had done MORE with our lives or done it better.

Living life to it's fullest means you'll never look back with remorse.

Life is what we make it.

**7r14ngL3Ch0k3** · 03-18-2007, 06:55 PM

Dont regret what you did, regret what you didnt do.

**Anti** · 03-19-2007, 09:29 AM

To me, this does not only mean to cherish yourself and your surroundings, but to cherish your time. You can still keep you responsibilities, but make sure to use what other time you have to make yourself and others cherished happy. Dont let thinks stress you out; If they do, cut back. reward yourself later. something. Sometimes you can get rid of some responsibilities. This may sound weird, but sometimes I just pack a small bag and go walking. I livefrom the bag, and I am my own resposibility. This aids in finding what you truly love and need, and gives a break from what sometimes shouldnt be most important. Simplicity helps you find the most complex of entities: youself. On a martial arts stand point this could mean to compete to make yourself better, not to define your opponent as worse. In this way you both benifit, and both have more reference to go by in life(there for being able to live more 'full'). And so, living to the fullest means being yourself, finding yourself, and keeping youself and possibly others worth while.

Pardon my wording. My mind wanders, and does so in different languages
-Anti

**Tom Yum** · 03-19-2007, 01:02 PM

Originally posted by Anti View Post

My mind wanders, and does so in different languages
-Anti

Like sign-language? Machine language?

**Troll Virus** · 03-19-2007, 01:13 PM

Originally posted by kiddbjj View Post

hey guys

how do you balance the desire the live life to the fullest when we all have responsibilities (jobs, study, mortgage etc) that keep us from doing what we'd rather be doing RIGHT NOW. For example I'd love to go camping on monday but I have to work, so... am I living life to the fullest?

Everyone is going to have an individual answer to that question and when asked, only you can give yours.
For me, It's not about yesterday, it's about today and tommorrow.
I have a little girl, soon to be six.

She gets up before me and goes to sleep long after I'd like to.
It's as if she is scared she misses something and I think that's a great way to look at life.

WORK, is a means to an end.
If it affords you the chance to LIVE, then it's a means to an end.
Hence;
Work to live, not live to work.

**Tom Yum** · 03-19-2007, 01:20 PM

Originally posted by kiddbjj View Post

how do you balance the desire the live life to the fullest when we all have responsibilities (jobs, study, mortgage etc) that keep us from doing what we'd rather be doing RIGHT NOW. For example I'd love to go camping on monday but I have to work, so... am I living life to the fullest?

(Sorry about posting here but there's not really a forum for it anywhere else on this board).

1. Make a weekly time schedule with your priorities lined up first.
2. Add your fun activities to the remaining times.
3. Adjust your schedule according to fundamental changes in priorities, first - sh!t happens.
4. Enjoy life.

**slayer31** · 03-19-2007, 02:32 PM

although i dont think youc an jsut abandon responsibilities, i think that you can definitely live life (even if you are working) in the "now". if in the "now" you can take into mind something like the most basic human instinct of being alive i.e: breathing, you can be happy, and therefore be fulfilled. but hell when opportunites arise to experience new things such as bungee jumping or what have you.... take advantage. jsut my two cents.

**kwai chang pain** · 03-19-2007, 08:48 PM

To me "living life to the fullest" means "Go for it" because you never know when your last day might be.

**osopardo** · 03-19-2007, 09:41 PM

selflessness

**kiddbjj** · 03-19-2007, 10:21 PM

hey guys thankd for the replies so far!

but i'm still wondering how you go beyond 'catch phrase' statements and how you actually apply these philosophies to everyday life and situations. is it something you are conciously aware of?

basically my missus told me that i live too much in the future, thinking about how things will be better for me and us when i finish my degree and finally get a real job. she says that i don't live my life to the fullest now, rather i hoard any money i come across rather than spend it on fun stuff and i always put off things that will interfere with my study or cost money like going away for the weekend or taking a long drive to the coast etc.

basically she thinks that even when i do finish my degree and get a good job i'll be so ingrained into this way of thinking and behaving (ie. delaying fun stuff) that nothing will change and that i'm just making empty promises now. I've been studying during our entire relationship, i've got 16 months left.

i'm sort of big on discipline and sacrificing for long term goals but she sees this as wasting these years of my life. I find this very distressing, especially since i'm a 28 year old uni student that hasn't really had much of a career etc before hand, mostly unpredictable and casual work in the hospitality industry. so its embarrasing enough that i havn't got my self sorted and am still in education whilst other people my age are well settled and doing cool stuff with their time and money. But even so, were married, have a mortgage so its not all bad!

now she's laying this on me and i believe there's an element of truth to it.

advice? comment?

**Little Apple** · 03-19-2007, 10:43 PM

I know lots of people who live in the future, and it seems to be very stressful for them. Let's face it, we all do that sometimes. The important thing is to remember that life is what you're living now. It doesn't suddenly start when you get a job your parents would be proud of.
Enjoy where you are and what you do have: take your wife on a picknick, make time to go for walks or whatever you like. Think of some things you love (painting, wrestling, your wife, gardening, whatever) and make sure you MAKE time to give a little bit of your soul to them on a regular basis.

Living life to the fullest, to me, is about understanding that you are NOT waiting for your life to start. It has started, and you are already using it for something, so you better make sure you that you like what you are using it for and not being owned by worries.

**Anti** · 03-20-2007, 09:13 AM

Originally posted by Tom Yum View Post

Like sign-language? Machine language?

No, English, Fluva, and Spanish. The only signlanguage I know es the finger and Im still learning how to fix a car

-Anti

**SamuraiGuy** · 03-20-2007, 11:17 AM

Originally posted by kiddbjj View Post

hey guys thankd for the replies so far!

but i'm still wondering how you go beyond 'catch phrase' statements and how you actually apply these philosophies to everyday life and situations. is it something you are conciously aware of?

basically my missus told me that i live too much in the future, thinking about how things will be better for me and us when i finish my degree and finally get a real job. she says that i don't live my life to the fullest now, rather i hoard any money i come across rather than spend it on fun stuff and i always put off things that will interfere with my study or cost money like going away for the weekend or taking a long drive to the coast etc.

basically she thinks that even when i do finish my degree and get a good job i'll be so ingrained into this way of thinking and behaving (ie. delaying fun stuff) that nothing will change and that i'm just making empty promises now. I've been studying during our entire relationship, i've got 16 months left.

i'm sort of big on discipline and sacrificing for long term goals but she sees this as wasting these years of my life. I find this very distressing, especially since i'm a 28 year old uni student that hasn't really had much of a career etc before hand, mostly unpredictable and casual work in the hospitality industry. so its embarrasing enough that i havn't got my self sorted and am still in education whilst other people my age are well settled and doing cool stuff with their time and money. But even so, were married, have a mortgage so its not all bad!

now she's laying this on me and i believe there's an element of truth to it.

advice? comment?

Advice on this, short term gain is the devil, stick with the long term gain man.

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