This is it.

This is it. This is your one opportunity to live your life. You only get one opportunity. There’s no rehearsal. No additional chances.

You are not a “spiritual being having a human experience.” You are a human being. You’re full of spirit and life. You are never more fully human and alive than you are now.

Before you came forth from your mother’s womb, you were less human than you are now. After you die, you will again be less human than you are now. This is it.

Now is not the time to avoid living your life in this world on this planet, Earth. Now is not the time to escape into fantasies about previous lives or a better life in a better place after this one. Now is not the time to distract, drug, transcend, or ascend yourself or be more “spiritual.”

Now is the time to be fully human right where you are. Be your human self, your ego. You have no “Higher Self.” Believing you do only disparages the human self you are. 

It’s not time to annihilate, dissolve, or transcend your ego. That’s self harm. It’s time to fully realize your ego. Your ego is not an abstract, psychological concept. It’s not a problem. It’s who you are. 

You are your life-story from birth to death. You create it. Become your self. Become yourself-as-a-story. Live yourself-as-story. Improvise it. Make it up as you go.

You’re not divine. You’re human. You’re not immortal. You’re mortal. Your life is not eternal. It’s temporary. This is it.

You’re not special because you’re something more than a temporary, mortal, human being. You’re special because you are a unique, once-in-forever, temporary, mortal, human being. 

You’re not just visiting here. You’re not just passing through on your way back to your true home. This is it. This Earth is your true home. This time is the time of your life.

You are like a shooting star. You come into being, shine for a while, and disintegrate. This is your time to shine!

Now is the time to invest all you have in becoming who you are here to become. It’s time to fully realize your self and the purpose of your life. It’s time to fulfill the life-affirming desires of your heart. They’re yours alone to fulfill.

That’s what you’re here to do. That’s what you must do before you die. That’s what we all desperately need you to do.

This is it. Live the best life-story you can live. Live a life worthy of being human.