I want you to agree…that this journey of our individual lives is something incredible and beautiful. I want you to agree that it’s something worth cherishing and remembering. For the best part: it’s worth living in form, in this moment and in the now.

It seems so important to me that we go about our lives building a mind-set to approach existence in appreciation, thoughtfulness, connection and fulfillment; as well as morality, peace, and contemplation; in a way to invoke holy moments, appreciation for nature, deep friendships, true loving relationships, perseverance through hardships, thoughts in wisdom invoking wisdom and spreading wisdom…And through wisdom obtaining a spiritual connection to the world around us, and the people and animals and all the beings among it.

It seems vitally important that we live our lives in a form of constant examination and selfstudy. Through our own understanding and enlightenment we may live as lights and beacons to others, holding true to strong morals, forming beliefs, standing by them, and double checking them.

We should love our friends, really love our friends and hold our lovers true. For the long trek of our lives and forever, we should fight our battles, falling down and getting up again, over and over again, repairing our defects, being crushed, crumbling, and learning; learning from common disaster. We should love those who do us wrong, wanting the best for those who would call us enemies, and sharing what we have.

It seems so essential that we find all the unique experiences we can in life, and live them to the fullest. We should explore nature, and relationships, friendships and dance hand-in-hand with lovers. We should find true love, not half-love or anything less than the most real love and cherish it so. We should adventure together through the darkest winter nights and the hottest summer days, perceiving it all and learning from it all; share those experiences with our friends, and family, and the entire world.

We should be living out in the real world, living for our own lives, evading the traps in the sociology of our society and fighting the urges to compromise. Most importantly, living as we speak and acting as we think, and being as we truly are.

In this way of living we become lights in this world, living true, and inspiring others of the world to live this way as well. We ignite fires in their hearts, setting an example that spreads like wildfire.

Inspiring a world full of people to see it our way is doing little, but inspiring a world of people to see it their own ways and to express this and we’ve inspired something greater than ideas, we’ve inspired the creation of them.

Be a light to the world and a host of souls may follow behind your light, but ignite the fires within each of them and they will follow their own roads and be lights unto themselves, and lights to spark lights among the entire world.

Imagine where we will go, as we are now and what we could become, as we follow in the steps of those before us, but blaze our own trails and set our own legacies and be causes and adventures and triumphs anew; going to places, feeling emotions, and having experiences no others have ever dreamed before. We’ll change this world for the better… and this is after all, a world of possibilities. The greatest stories we could read, the greatest adventures to be told, are the stories of our own lives. Let it be that we live them with this thought in mind.

This editorial was originally published in Volume 46, Issue 4.