Live Your Best Life by Devon

Live Your Best Life by Devon - November 2018 Scholarship Essay

“Live your best life.”
Any person who is around me for more than half an hour will probably hear this phrase. While I laughingly say “senior quote” to anything that seems funny and is even funnier out of context, I have put a lot of thought into what I want my words to be. I want the students who look in their yearbooks years later to flip through to see the graduating class and see words that mean something, words that matter, words I believe and are present in my every day vocabulary.
Those words are “live your best life.”
“Life your best life” is subjective. A fluid term, “live your best life” can mean Something to anyone. Whether living your best life means eating a piece of chocolate chip bunt cake or leaving it (though whatever life in which you have to turn down bunt cake is not my best life), going to a party or staying home with a TV show and a book, petting a puppy or putting more hours into studying (a true Best Life would be a marriage of both), and so on.
Life is about decisions you make and it is in your best interest to pick the best one. Sometimes the “best one” changes with the time; in one instance going to a party is a better, more appealing, better suited option than staying home and other times it is not. Just as life changes, so does how a person can best live theirs.
Every day I wake up and strive to follow through on my mission statement. My best life includes put emphatic focus on my religion, enveloping my friends with love and affection, learning, reading, laughing, writing, and scrolling through various social media feeds. Sometimes I am not able to do all of those things in one day, but I choose the most important ones and I choose based on the day, my mood, my needs, and my schedule.
“Live your best life” is an important motif and is appropriately open-ended in a world where almost everything is one question with no sure answer. The only solid advice that is truly applicable to everyone is to live their best life, because sometimes that’s the best anyone can do. And if someone actively does so? I feel like the advice is pretty solid.