four principles

What Matters

Life is too short to waste it . It may seem a cliche but it is a subjective conception of the life we live in , whether it may be a positive or negative outlook . Still , it remains that life is short and unpredictable and that every day , hour , second we take should always have no regrets . Living life means that one gets to experience new things everyday , meeting different people , and accomplishing personal goals . But what is more important is the well-examined life a proper personal reflection of the life we

have already lived . This way , we may discern our true nature and purpose in life for it gives us a clear perspective of how we make our choices in certain situations and how we handle failure and mistakes . Failure is a principle in which one must live by . To accept failure graciously is not the point of defeat . Defeat manifests itself when the individual is overwhelmed by failure and refuses to stand up and continue the fight . Failures present us lessons learned from experience , that it helps a person to become fully aware of his capabilities and do better with future actions . There is a lesson learned from every mistake we make and our choice is to learn from it and not make the same mistake twice . Reality can be harsh , but what is important is following our choices . With every choice , there may be mistake or failure . With failure there sometimes come pain , which lets us know that we can feel - that we are human individuals capable of our own choices and responsible enough to stand by them . Our choices come from our own and experience teaches us that it is always on the person 's will that makes the future . The life we live is after all , not perfect and ideal . Still , it is in the choice of the person to make life ideal and perfect . Choice makes who we are . We write our own future and define our terms of success , happiness , and contentment

To love may be the source of real happiness or real misery . But it is better to have loved than to not have loved at all . To experience a connection with a person may take us into another perspective in understanding with the life we live - that is , sharing a life with another soul . This experience provides us an incomprehensible feeling where reason and logic is eliminated and what matters is the feeling itself . This connections is something that gives us purpose , that we would do anything in to maintain such a relationship for it gives us happiness no matter how vague and unreasonable it my be . Love however , is not entirely limited to a person . Friendship has also an equal value to that of love . For there are persons that always look out for us and show the same concern like those who truly matter to us . A person can never be alone in this world and provide that...