Keegan: The Opposite of Loneliness

Have you read this yet? Have you at least heard of it? It's the inspiring article written by Yale graduate Marina Keegan who tragically passed away days after graduation. Her passing seems to add even more meaning to an article that resonates with messages such as "We’re so young. We’re so young. We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time." How can you not be touched, especially knowing that Marina has no time left?

She reminds us that despite all our regrets, it's not too late. Our choices and even our lives are not concrete and we can still change and do something different. The lines "The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have," brought me to the verge of tears, and I never cry. 


Every once and a while I'm reminded about how precious life is. One minute you're there and the next you aren't. I need these reminders because sometimes I can get so bogged down with day to day life. But when I re-remember how precarious all our lives are, I then do my best to make even the little moments count. We can't have awesome, life changing adventures everyday, there are still bills to pay and responsibilities to be had. I think instead that living life to the fullest means stopping every once and a while to appreciate the little things, to smile at all you have (and not despair at what you don't) because you never know when your time may be up.