What do you get out of life?

Answer 1

You stare at your ceiling wishing life could be different. Wishing you had taken the subway to that place that could have made your life turn out completely different. Wondering if that would have made a difference. You start to not care about your spelling, or how your hair looks in the morning, I mean, who do you have to impress? You are already married, have a son and a girl on the way, and your boss couldn't care less about how your life is, or how stressed you are. So, why would it matter?

Mad at yourself for choosing this path, you get in your car every morning to go to work. The same thing everyday. Traffic, complaints, nagging from your boss, your friends persuading you, your wife stopping you... the stress of everyday life can get to you. Feeling like the whole world is laughing at you because you can't handle it any longer. You want to get out.

You sometimes lay on the very edge of your bed pretending to sleep. You listen to your wife beside you softly breathing. Sighing and shaking your head, you listen for God to answer your questions of, "Why am I here? What is the point? What will I get out of life?" Hoping for the slightest sign of an answer... But it doesn't come. Suicide. Death. Leaving it all behind. You've known people who have taken their own lives. The tears from their families, friends, and even from you are gone from your mind. You don't remember how drastically that person influenced you. You don't see how it could effect your friends and families lives. How your son could grow up with only photographs of his father and your bed only cradling your wounded wife. Your newborn baby wouldn't know you. You wouldn't know her...

What do you get out of life? You get happiness. You get freedom. You get the chance to live, to sing, to fall in love. You get to feel emotions. You get to smell your wife's perfume in the morning, to feel the touch of your child's tiny hands... You get to take care of your family, to hold them in your arms. You see, once its over, its over. There's no 'undo' button, no chance to say you want one more minute on Earth. Live while your here. Experience everything. Realize how precious every second is, and spend it wisely... Because who knows when you'll get another chance.