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Recently it seems as if every day is a holiday, whether it be National Sibling Day, National Best Friend Day, or National Dog Day. So a few months ago, I was browsing the “Explore” page of Instagram and saw a picture of a chocolate fountain. Naturally, I clicked on the post and the caption was: “Happy National Chocolate Day!” After celebrating with some chocolate cream pie, it got me thinking about what other holidays I was missing out on, so I downloaded the “Holiday Today” app on my phone. It turns out that not only is there a holiday every day, but there’s anywhere from four to nine per day.


When I told my friends about these holidays, most of them just laughed and thought that the holidays were fake - and maybe they are, who knows. But as I embark on this new chapter of my life in college, I’m reminded of how short life truly is. While in the moment of sitting on the kitchen floor trying to make two bunny ears with my shoelaces and tie a bow, studying until three am before closing my textbook and relying on luck to get me through my chemistry test, and staring at the clock waiting for my shift at the U-pick farm to end, time definitely felt slow. However, looking back now, I cannot believe that eighteen years have already passed and how much has changed in this time.

As I started reflecting on time’s essence, I began to wonder if I am living life the right way. Should we be focusing on our future or appreciating the present, regardless of what is to come next? If we live in the future, then our life progressively becomes an array of insignificant intermediates towards our destiny. Each memory would simply be another melody within a world of love, music, and art ignored by the desire for something greater. Yet if we live in the present, then our neglected future will surprise us one day, forcing us to suddenly face what lies ahead. So among the distant waves of the future and the near shore of the present, how can we be expected to find the balance? How can we be sure that we are living?


I believe that there truly is no right way to live life, and anybody that tries to tell you otherwise is simply denying the imperfection in the world. But it is this imperfection that defines life, making us continuously question ourselves and those around us. So if the world is imperfect, the future creates a blur, and the present limits the future, then what is that to say about us? We are all different. Our eyes will see different parts of the world and our minds will adapt to varying experiences, but our differences dim in comparison to the similarity of our hearts.


Our hearts all long to make sense of the life around us and yearn to find the greatness in the world. Because amidst the imperfection, there exists greatness, and this greatness can be found in many places: in the kindness of others, in defining ourselves, or in achieving our goals. There might not be a map towards the greatness, a particular way to live our lives in order to discover it, but it exists. And there is some peculiar beauty in navigating our own lives, in our own ways with the help of others along the way.


An imperfect world filled with greatness and consumed by beauty, and it is ours to explore and conquer.


Through this blog, I challenge everybody to pick a holiday and celebrate it, whether it be the one I write about or another one that interests you.  Celebrate today, enjoy the moment, and find the sparkle in your daily life because everybody deserves a dose of happiness along the way to their greatness.  

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