How Do I Get Past Realizing I Lived A Life Not Fully Lived?

Lukas Schwekendiek
2 min readFeb 21, 2024
Photo by Fallon Michael on Unsplash

Today marks the beginning.

It marks the beginning of the end, the start of the rest of your life, and the first moment you can interact with.

You cannot interact with tomorrow and cannot change how things worked yesterday.

No matter how much you try in this moment, tomorrow will never come and yesterday will always have happened the way it did.

But, right now, in this very moment, you can choose to be whoever you want to be, to do whatever you want to do and to work to obtain whatever you want to obtain.

But you only have right now.

Oh! Well… there it goes. The moment is gone. But lucky for you, here comes another moment… ready… set… and you missed it again…

There it goes once more.

But luckily here’s yet another moment!

Look!

It’s coming up right there!

It will be here soon!

Get ready!

And… NOW!

And there it goes again. Bye Moment!

Forget about the Moments that have passed.

A trillion different moments have already passed you by in which you didn’t act, but you…

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Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"