Two Sided YOLO

This recent popular acronym called YOLO (You Only Live Once) has been used over and over again by various ranges of people. Some of the young generations take it as their personal beliefs. Well, I find it interesting to observe the actual meaning behind the word YOLO itself. Although many use the same word, not all of them understand it with the same meaning.

The first group of people see YOLO as in “You only live once, bro. Have fun while you can. Have the guts to do crazy things. Never worry too much, just enjoy your life like a boss.” These people will try their best to please themselves while they can. They work their ass off to eat, drink, sleep, travel, sing, dance, shop, smoke, and all. I am not saying that these all activities are taboos, but we need to look deeper. What would be their motivations behind it? It seems like they are doing their best in life, their best to achieve self-satisfaction as long as they are still breathing. Since they believe when they die, they die. As if heaven would not provide any better things than this earth could.

The second group of people also agree that they only live once. Except they decide to create meaning towards their lives that will leave legacy after their death. Life is no longer about oneself, but others. They will absorb as much love, kindness, knowledge, energy, and wisdom and spread it around. Yes, of course they would still eat, drink, sleep, travel, like other normal people would do, but it is not their final destination in life. There are things much greater than to live thinking about how to achieve self-happiness, self-satisfaction. These YOLOers will make sure once they die, their positive influences don’t.

Now which kind of YOLO would you adopt? As you are reading this article it means you are still alive, as you are still alive it means you can still make decisions and changes. Last thing that I want to say to you is do not be so afraid to die that you never begin to live.

Cheers!