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One of my all-time least favorite acronyms has got to be YOLO. If you’re not already familiar with it, it stands for “you only live once” and as of late seems to be a key phrase uttered right before the cool kids do something incredibly dumb. Despite the reality often being something along the lines of “you only live once… so let’s run into the lake during a lightning storm because YOLO,” the core thinking behind the phrase is actually a more relatable life philosophy (as crazy as that may sound). At its core, however, YOLO could be looked at as a “you only live once… so you may as well live life to the fullest and not be afraid to do something you might regret” kind of thinking. Why do I bring this up? Well, many people do not live by the principles of “YOLO,” but instead tend to fall back into a safe, comfortable mindset that allows them to fall back on “later” when it comes to important decisions. This “later” lifestyle is by and large a contrasting way of looking at things when compared to the YOLO way of looking at things, but it’s also one that almost everybody falls to at some point or another. People like “later.” It is always there for them, just meandering about in some theoretical future where decisions are already made. It is always there for them, until it isn’t…
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