Living

I was thinking about Thoreau's quote to suck the marrow out of life and LIVE. Sometimes we get so caught up in the little things of life that we forget that life is about LIVING. Life isn't about just surviving and doing the same things day to day. It's all about growing and learning and becoming better each day. Even if we think we've improved ourselves, there is always something we can be doing for others and using what we've learned to help other people.
Sadly, this is something I haven't really grasped until I came to college, but I think hopefully I understand a little better what life is all about. Just think about all the people in the world who go to the same boring jobs everyday and come home to the same wasteful lives...not to sound harsh or anything, but life is so much more than that.
At my internship, I work for an LDS magazine, so I get to write a lot of fun service articles from an LDS perspective. I've been interviewing some people recently who have done so much with what they've learned to bless lives. A professor of food science developed a food dryer and introduced it to people in the Pacific Islands so they could have food storage. A man I talked to today developed a simple gardening method and he distributed his video throughout the world so people could follow the advice of the prophet and have a garden. A baseball team is going to the Dominican Republic for some games, and while there they're going to teach some clinics and give the kids some equipment, and also go on splits with the missionaries.
ANYWAY, I think these people realize what life is all about...developing ourselves and using that to bless others. :)