Don't limit your life. Because it will end.

I was going to write about something completely different, but something took my focus away. An interview that's going on during the morning show on my tv.

Krstian Gidlund died 4 years ago today, and he is someone that the majority of all swedes has been moved by in some way. He wrote a blog about his cancer and all of his deepest feelings about the fact that he was going to die within months.

Listening to and watching this interview right now, with one of Kristians best friends who is talking about how Kristian taught him the meaning of life, I feel some sort of relief.

We all know one thing, and one thing only about this life: we will die.
And the fact that we are going to die is a good thing. Because if life was endless, there would be no point in living. At all. We would't appreciate any of it.

There is a meaning with every stage we go through in life. There's a reason why a newborn is a baby for such short amount of time, and it's because we are supposed to cherish that time! If our child was a newborn forever, we wouldn't cherish it. The fact that it ends is the meaning with it all.

The fact that our life will end is the whole point. Some people say there is no meaning with anything since we will all die one day, but it's the other way around. It's because we will die that our lives have meaning, and it's up to us to fill it with meaning.

When we are on vacation for 2 weeks, we cherish those weeks and we enjoy every second of it, because we know it will end soon.
Why can't we see our entire life that way?

If I'm lucky, I have lived about a third of my life. I keep learning and every year that passes by, my life gets better. I can truly say that I have zero regrets in life. None. Every single mistake and every struggle has had some meaning which taught me something new. It's just as important to look back at our lives and don't regret things, as it is to cherish everything that's ahead, even the hard parts.

I will keep applying the lessons I've learned in life, and continue to use them as just that, lessons. They are not truths. Lessons are not learned to limit our lives, they are learnt to help us grow and to become brave.

We go through a heartache not to learn that we don't have the guts to love again, but the opposite. We go though a heartache to learn that we can go though it and survive. We can open ourselves up and truly love again, because we know that a heartache won't kills us. We have proof, in the shape of a very own experience.

Life is fascinating, and it's beautiful.
Don't limit your life, because you know as well as I do that it will end.