Coasting through life doesn’t really build character or enlighten me to the ways of God or of man.  I’m not so sure life is supposed to be easy and I’m pretty confident that I’m not here to seek a life of comfort and luxury.

Instead, feeling alive might actually hurt.  It might involve risk and failure.  It might downright suck sometimes.

But it’s better then being cool with wasting the days being “complacent and tasteless and bored.”

It’s not the end but it feels like it is
I’m waking up like I’m back from the dead
I’m stepping out and it feels so free
But as long as I’m moving it’s alright

I feel alive and it hurts for a change
I’m looking back its hard to believe
That I was cool with the days that I wasted
Complacent and tasteless and bored
But that was yesterday

-The Afters, “Never Going Back to OK”