"Try to learn to breath deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."
I guess this goes along with my recurring theme of never taking a single moment in life for granted. Dear Ernest makes a very earnest statement indeed here (I couldn't resist, I apologize). He's saying that we can't live life looking down. We have to be deliberate in everything we do, whether it's sleeping, eating, screaming, loving, crying, laughing...every single action we take and emotion we experience is special and unique and worthy of everything we have to put into it.
I say follow his words. If you're going to eat, savor your meal. If you're going to sleep, do so deeply and dreamily. If you're going to laugh, annoy everyone around you with that snort your get embarrassed about. If you're going to get angry, scream at the top of your lungs and communicate how you feel (within reason, obviously; don't end up in jail). Cry hard, smile wide, breathe resolutely. There is only one life here on Earth. Start living it.
Because, as Mr. Hemingway so delicately put it, you will be dead soon enough.
~ Lacey :)
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