Live your Life. I meant it. Live it.

Matthew Dao-Pick
Voices From The Classroom
4 min readMar 5, 2020

Cashin’ out the check

Tryin’ to figure out what’s next

I am only alive

I got no thrive

I am just following a day-to-day

I am dismayed

Why?

This routine has kept me

safe, it gave me a house, it gave me food, it gave me clothes, it gave me comfort,

It gave me… it made me dismayed

Why do I feel this way?

It is because I am on the wrong pathway

This ‘comfortable’ life I livin’ ain’t really comfortable. It has kept me

same-old, same-old

no change, no bein’ bold

This routine gives me the necessity

But it ain’t helpin’ me live happily

If I want to proclaim

that I can honor my name

I need to change

So I can make it to the ballgame

— — — — — — —

It was just a daily day

Drivin’ near the bay’

A young-man from the bar

Gets in his car

I am on a one way road

Traveling to my abode

His car zooms like he’s playing GTA V past the sign that screams and pleads yield

The last thing I see was his wipers on his windshield

Breaks screeches, the hood of my car violently crazily clashes with his hood

Debris fly out like a bomb had dropped

We collide and I am thrown aside,

Glass shards in my side

Bleedin’ out, I think I’m going to die.

Is this really how it ends?

My vision goes blindly black

And than I wake up

In an ambulance, my life starts flashing before my eyes

I am filled with surprise

For all I see is a life of wasted time,

I was expectin’ to see sublime, but it’s to late, there is no time

As I lay down, my life slowly fadin’ away,

I see that so much of my life had been spent endlessly chasin’ after a paycheck

Not chasin’ after dreams

My life wasn’t life. It was just a routine filled with emptiness; a lie.

And that’s when I realize

I should’ve prioritized

I should’ve been chasin’ reachin’ my dreams

I should’ve been livin’ a life, not this redundant routine

I should’ve been takin’ risks

I should’ve challenged myself

I should’ve asked out the girl with the smooth and black hair that flows like a calm cool river

I should’ve done everything I’ve ever wanted to do. But I didn’t — I didn’t.

My life will end like this? I had never even attempted what I wanted to attempt!

I am filled with regret and just wishin’ that I would’ve done the should’ves.

— — — — — — — — —

And than I wake up.

There are no glass shards in my side. I wasn’t thrown aside. I ain’t dyin’ in an ambulance.

I am layin’ in my bed. Alive.

That’s when I remember the crazy dream I had last night that really wasn’t crazy at all.

I remember the feeling of regret as I thought my life would end unfulfilled like a quill with no arrows.

But I got a second chance.

I have time. I still can turn my wishes into a tangible truth.

I still have time to do everything I’ve ever wanted to do.

So I’m going to do it.

I still have time to turn all of those should’ves into “I will. I can”

So I’m going to do it.

I still have time to chase my dreams

So I’m going to do it and conquer it. I will live a life, I have to. I can no longer live this empty-filled routine.

I will achieve so when I rest on my deathbed, I will pass lively and happily knowing that I have

Chased and reached dreams

Lived a life with gleam

Taked risks

Challenged myself, developed grit

Asked out the girl

And accomplished

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

I am layin’ on my deathbed,

Twirlin’ and spinnin’ out of conciousness,

Not regretfully, but happily and lively

And havin’ a smile because I am

Knowin’ that I did

Knowin’ I did

Knowin’ I did

Knowin’ I did

Knowin’ I did

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