In its simplest terms, there are two ways to live life: You can either be actively engaged with the world throughout every waking moment, or you can passively watch the world go by and let opportunities slip through your fingers. If you choose to live passively, you’ll never fail at anything. But you’ll also never succeed, either. You’ll simply just…exist. You’ll wake up, go through the motions in order to survive, go to bed, rinse, and repeat until the day comes that you don’t wake up. On the other hand, if you live an active life, you’ll surely experience ups and downs along the way – but you’ll truly be living. William Faulkner once wrote, “Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.” Putting yourself “out there,” even if it means exposing yourself to the possibility of failure, is a much better way to spend your time on Earth