9/28/16

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars want to remind you that none of us are here forever. We don't really know how much time any of us get either. Your life could be long and full, or quick and tragic, sometimes the choice is not ours.

We do have choices, though. We decide what to make of our lives, and we decide nearly every minute of every day. We make a choice about what we want to do with the life we have been given.

We choose how much we apply ourselves, to school, to a career, to art, to the things that make us happy. Only we can figure out what brings us satisfaction, fulfillment, joy and purpose. It is your duty to find out what that is and run with it. It is hard to achieve much else if you aren't happy with who you are.

We make decisions about how we treat others and present ourselves to the world. Are we kind or are we cruel? Compassionate or indifferent? Do we take more than we give, or do we leave the world a better place than at found it?

A million big decisions, and even more tiny ones, that we have to make and then abide by their consequences. All the time never knowing how much time we really have.

These choices will affect the people you love. They will determine what you get back from your relationships as you go through life. They will shape and mold your children. They will even touch the people on your periphery, and complete strangers you might never know.

All of our decisions ripple out from us, like waves in a puddle during a rainstorm, colliding with the actions of others. You never know what effect they might ultimately have, so you should always choose wisely. You can't control exactly how others might react, so we need to do a balancing act between what we need and what it might take away from them.

Getting back to the original point, we are not here forever. Life can be cruel and unfair, and we can be gone in an instant for no apparent reason. Any plans you had cut short, and dreams left unfulfilled.

That's why you should always try to present yourself the way you want to be remembered. You never know when it might be the last time you see anyone. You should also always try to make time to include the people you love in your life.

Because one day they too are gone all too soon, taken from you in the blink of an eye, and all you have left are regrets over things left unsaid, and the same lesson we never seem to learn, no matter how often life tries to teach us.