Just Something I've Learned: Living is a Verb

I love life. Period. And not because it has been easy or because I've been handed everything, I've worked hard to make my life the way it is. I make plans, goals, I dream and most important of all I DO. I love verbs, action words. People say they want to do this or that, but rarely do they actually do. If you want to travel work your butt off for that plane ticket. If you want to make a difference, decide what that difference is and work at it. If you want to understand, work towards understanding. This life will require work, dedication, patience, diligence, and that ever troublesome effort.
I don't mean to make myself sound all great, but hey I've worked to make my dreams reality. I don't pretend to be super successful or perfect. The Lord knows I have failed far more than I have succeeded, but I have done what I can to not waste time. I have learned that this life is just so brief, though we are given an eternity of existence, this life is so so short, and it will be what decides what we will get in that eternity. This is the time to work, learn, play, sing, dance, see, feel, hear, taste, and smell what this world is made of. Life is a verb.
I fear regret. I fear emptiness. I am twenty, twenty is so young but on my birthday I realized time is precious, days, weeks, months, years all pass alarmingly fast. One day I will be 27 then 39, and then 46, and before I know what even happened I will inevitably be 69 then 78 and so on. When I look back on the life I've lived will I know what I did or will I draw a blank? Will the next 58 years of my life be filled with love, service, adventure, and fulfilment? Or will it just be 58 years. We cannot control time. But we can control what it is that we do with it. Learn as much as possible, see as much as possible. BE as much as possible. Some of the world's lessons are best learned in a foreign place. There are oceans, mountains, rivers, lakes, clouds, trees, people, lives, opinions, cultures, and truths out there waiting for you to discover and to be made a part of the you that is there, but simply needs to be found.
The prophet Spencer W. Kimball said "Make no small plans; for they have no magic to stir men's souls." Isn't that such a beautiful statement, being small and living small does nothing for you or anyone else. This is the time to be what you are capable of.
Be BOLD, for it is ever so worth it.