You start dying slowly,
If you forget how to empathize
If you don’t practice compassion,
Don’t cherish friendship,
If you forget what gratitude is,
You start dying slowly when you kill
Your love of adventure, your wish for experience
Growth, authenticity, wide-eyed vulnerability
You start dying slowly when you forget your youth
How to play, let go, and celebrate
You start dying as you forget romance
Walking everyday the same path
Keeping to yourself, wearing the same thoughts
You die slowly if you forget to mediate, appreciate
Socialize, help others, feel passionate about others
Empower, mentor, support, idealize
If you don’t stand for something you believe in
If you do not go after a dream
Of living for something completely
How can you even say you have lived?
If you do not allow yourself room for failure
At least a million times in your lifetime
Don’t pretend you have lived, don’t even try
Because compassion, gratitude, empathy and forgiveness
Is what makes us human, sweet hearted and sentient.
Wuji Seshat 