It’s tempting I know. 

To stay in bed.

To do absolutely nothing with your life.

To cry because each tear is justified. 

Sadness drives a hard bargain. 

“In exchange for your heartache, I will free you of your motivation, and with lack of motivation comes lack of caring at all. One overarching problem in exchange for the inability to care about all the little things.”

It’s not even a great deal, but sometimes it feels like our only option. 

But sadness, like all things, has a weakness. 

Because when we are sad we envy the people who aren’t. 

The ones who seem to have it all together. 

Because you can stay in bed if you want.

Little difference would it make to the rest of the world.

But it’s your own standards, your own jealousy you have to get over if you are going to choose to be sad.

Because if you’re not going to live life to the fullest, someone else will.

If you’re not going to love until your heart is throbbing, someone else will.

If you’re not going to explore the world, then I assure you you’re not going to discover anything new, but someone else will. 

Because if you’re not going to live life to the fullest, someone else will.

I don’t want to make it to the end knowing there was more to life.

Knowing I could have been the person that was happy.

Instead, I want to be happy now.

I want to be all I can be for myself.

So I can be proud I got out of bed. 

So I can be more than just content with the life I was given.

Temptation is excruciating, but the only thing more painful is knowing you didn’t have to be in pain,

if only you choose to give life a little more in return for all it gives you.