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Looking for Alaska
you spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape in one day, how awesome it will be, and imagining that future is keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
This quote is an important reminder to enjoy the present and not to worry too much about what the future has in store for you. Of course you have to plan ahead and structure some things but it's so easy to get lost in thinking ahead. It's really easy to get swallowed up in waiting for the next event, the next holiday, the next weekend that you forget that you still have the days in between to enjoy your life. Because what if you look back on your life and realise you spend most of your life wishing for things to happen rather than enjoying the things that were happening.