Life is too short to waste it.

This week I was remembering a childhood friend, who left the country because of the economic situation in search of a better life ... He was living 1 year out of the country, working as a taxi driver, and in December, unfortunately he lost his life, victim of Theft to steal your vehicle.

That news was very impressive for everyone, he was one of the youngest neighbors, we have all grown up and we have our lives made and families. It hurt us a lot what happened, I thought how short life can be, sometimes we plan things for a distant future that we do not know if it will arrive. I'm not saying it's bad to plan, what I think now is that very long-term plans are not good.

We can make plans for the future and strive to make our present pleasant. Life is really too short to be wasted, we can only be sure of the present and, therefore, we should commit ourselves to live fully every moment of our days, aiming happiness.

^{This photograph was taken in Ávila. Caracas Venezuela.}

Money, university career and success give us happiness, but in most cases it is only a temporary situation. At the first unforeseen or failure, our apparent happiness would end. For this reason, we must learn to cultivate inner joy and start from ourselves to live better, since we can live well day after day, even when we encounter difficulties if we can identify the center of happiness that keeps us alive.

My family is my center of happiness, to see my daughters laughing every day, to be able to please them in something they want, is something really gratifying. To live to the maximum every day that I am with them, to go out to walk every day even for 15 minutes, to listen to them singing or to hear how they did in school ... that gives me joy and motivates me to fight for them every day.

Each person has a different center in their life, if we learn to enjoy every moment of our lives and transmit to others our happiness, we will be leading a full life, and every time we have the opportunity to do something, we will not leave it for tomorrow, let's do it When we plan, we do not do so many detours, we do our best to meet the goal as soon as possible ... and most importantly, strive to achieve our dreams. Many people who have left, unfortunately, could not achieve their dreams in life.