{"id":35753,"date":"2016-12-18T09:21:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=35753"},"modified":"2016-12-23T19:54:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T03:54:22","slug":"die-doing-what-you-want-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/18\/die-doing-what-you-want-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Die Doing What You Want to Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35674\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35674\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/04\/take-more-risks\/eric-kim-street-photography-only-in-america-14-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/eric-kim-street-photography-Only-in-America-14-1.jpg?fit=1400%2C929&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1400,929\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"eric-kim-street-photography-Only-in-America-14\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;San Diego, 2013&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/eric-kim-street-photography-Only-in-America-14-1.jpg?fit=800%2C531&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-35674\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/eric-kim-street-photography-Only-in-America-14-1-800x531.jpg?resize=800%2C531\" alt=\"eric-kim-street-photography-Only-in-America-14\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/eric-kim-street-photography-Only-in-America-14-1.jpg?resize=800%2C531&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/eric-kim-street-photography-Only-in-America-14-1.jpg?resize=640%2C425&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/eric-kim-street-photography-Only-in-America-14-1.jpg?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/eric-kim-street-photography-Only-in-America-14-1.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You never know when you will die \u00e2\u20ac\u201d why risk the chance of dying when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing something you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to do?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>We can die unexpectedly<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhen I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ovid<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Death (physical or mental) is unpredictable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone dying from a car accident<\/li>\n<li>People dying from terrorist attacks<\/li>\n<li>People suddenly having a heart attack<\/li>\n<li>People getting diagnosed with cancer<\/li>\n<li>People getting dementia or Alzheimer&#8217;s (mental death)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait until retirement to truly live<\/h2>\n<p>Why is it that we always put off what we really want to do in life? We all think that once we retire, or have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153enough\u00e2\u20ac\u009d money \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we will finally have the stability, time, and energy to do what we really want to do.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in reality, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153enough\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is never enough. Even billionaires complain that they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have enough money to pursue what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re truly passionate about. And not only that, but often the richer you become, the more trapped you become. You have even <em>less<\/em> free time to pursue your creative leisure.<\/p>\n<h2>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do what you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to do<\/h2>\n<p>Nobody knows what they want to do in life. Many of us don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what our life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s purpose is.<\/p>\n<p>Yet most of us know what we are <em>not<\/em> passionate about. Things we dread. Things that we <em>don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/em> want to do in life.<\/p>\n<p>What are some of these things you can remove from your life?<\/p>\n<p>If you knew today were your last day on earth, what would you <em>not<\/em> do today?<\/p>\n<p>Would you really stay up late doing work from the office, instead of playing with your kid?<\/p>\n<p>Would you really spend more time answering emails, instead of reading, writing, or reflecting?<\/p>\n<p>Would you spend your last day on earth \u00e2\u20ac\u0153networking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with people you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really like, instead of going out and taking photos?<\/p>\n<p>Would you read business books on how to make more money, instead of studying or reading something you are truly passionate about?<\/p>\n<h2>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waste a single day<\/h2>\n<p>Live each day as if it were your last.<\/p>\n<p>Die doing what you want to do. Because one day, you will.<\/p>\n<p>Stay true to yourself,<br \/>\nEric<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn more: <a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/philosophy\/\"><strong>Philosophy &gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never know when you will die \u00e2\u20ac\u201d why risk the chance of dying when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing something you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/eric-kim-street-photography-Only-in-America-14-1.jpg?fit=1400%2C929&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}