YOLO:

an abbreviation for ‘You only Live Once’. A phrase that has captured the hearts and minds of Generation Y, a term thrown around to justify any kind of ridiculous and impulsive behavior.

Some include: spending money you don’t have because YOLO and jumping off a rock into water when you don’t know how deep or shallow it is because, well, YOLO. The meaning of the phrase has been completely misunderstood; taken to be a justification for stupidity.

Yes, every person on this earth does only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Doing it right? What a question. This means different things for different people. But no matter who you are and where you come from, we all have one thing in common: the ability to learn. No, not the education-type-of-learning, the ability to listen to stories told by those who have lived a little longer than us, the ‘over 40’s’.

People learn from mistakes that they have made in their life, but why not learn from other peoples’ mistakes. I am by no means saying that we won’t make mistakes, because we will and most likely, a lot.

And we will learn from them, just like the people before us and those before them. But let’s learn from other people’s mistakes and try our best not to make them ourselves.

Ignorance is NOT bliss. Ignorance is the epitome of sitting back, doing nothing and losing our child-like curiosity. So, let’s listen, learn, ask questions and a lot of them.