I hate to state the obvious, but...

We have one life to live and one planet to live it on

It would be nice to be a really religious person, or a Buddhist, and truly believe that we get another shot at it all, but unfortunately that just isn’t the case.

We all get dealt the same deal; we have one life to live and only one planet to live it on.

All of us.

Me, you and the richest and the poorest of us all.

Zoom! What was that? That was your life, mate, and you don’t get another.

So what are you going to do with it? Sit around thinking about what you might do one day? Making plans that you know won’t ever happen? Worrying about things that you absolutely positively can’t do anything about and cannot ever influence?

Every time the sun goes down on another day, that is one more day you will never get back.

Ever.

What did you do yesterday before the sun set that made you proud to be you living your one short life? Anything? Nothing?

And what about the planet that we all share? And when I say all, I mean in a totally global living thing kind of way. Hello trees and flowers, and all that.

What have you done for the planet today?

It gives us everything that we eat, wear, read, see, smell, everything. Have you stopped to think about it at all or are you too busy wasting the one life you have doing stupid, pointless things to give it a second thought? Every bit of food you ate yesterday or are going to eat today came from this planet of ours. Billions of years in the evolutionary making to get to this point of being able to grow and harvest and eat.

Did you think about that or did you just shove some really unhealthy garbage in your face without a second thought?

You can do things that will help you live a bit longer and be healthier, or you can do things that will make you tired and sick and live a short pointless life. But you know that don’t you? Nothing new here is there?

So, you have one life to lead, and one planet to live it on.

Get on with it.