Most folks remember the scene from that Final Destination movie, the one with the logging truck? Final Destination being that series of movies where people manage to ‘cheat’ death somehow, then Death comes for each of them in turn. This is perhaps one of the dumbest premises for any movie, ever.

We’re all going to die.

The question is what are you going to do in the meantime? So many of us are taking our lives for granted by chasing leisure as opposed to striving to produce something meaningful or working for the greater good. Instead of being thankful for bodies and minds that function properly, far too many of us take the absence of physical or mental impairment for granted by being lazy or self medicating with illicit substances to deal with stress.

But you’re still going to die.

So knuckle up buttercup. Life’s not gonna stop coming at you, until it does, so it’s time to get to work. Dig deep. Find something meaningful in your life worth working for and go about the business of obtaining any goals you’ve set for yourself. There’s an old saying that goes ’If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.’ Well, that simply means is that if you’re not REALLY living, you’re wasting your time and everyone else’s.

And you’re probably screwing up traffic. Honestly, learn to merge people…but I digress.

Tattoos aren’t just some self indulgent, aggrandizing, popular wave. The only thing that keeps them from being cliche is that they hurt, every time. It takes a certain degree of discipline to face those needles. A certain amount of trust and time spent with another human being to get a tattoo that you’ll love for the rest of your life. There’s something about getting a new tattoo that screams ‘I’m alive’ and in a time where so much is uncertain we think it’s important that people are still able to express themselves in their own skin.

So what are you waiting for? Live a little.