I Live, Because I Must
I’ve said yes to life, so I must live.
Life demands persistence. Even in pain, doubt and fear. You have persisted for decades. You are still here. That’s a superhuman achievement. Existentialist Albert Camus said, “Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
We are all wired to survive.
But a good life is more than survival. It’s meaning. It’s setting your soul on fire. It’s pushing past despair. For me it’s also about curiosity. It’s hope beyond reasonable doubt. It’s believing there’s something worth living for.
The most beautiful souls rise after tragedies. They keep going. They find new ways to love, create, and build. They showed me so many reasons to keep going. It’s resilience. It’s strength.
It’s the refusal to let the pain of life get to you.
Author Hemingway once wrote, “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” That hits me. Living isn’t about avoiding the breaking. It’s you react or respond or what happens after.
Living with this mindset changes you. You stop waiting for all the stars to align for you. You stop waiting for pain to end. Or obstacles to stop. You accept that struggle is part of the deal. But you keep moving. You keep searching.
