Imam Ali (as) said, "To lose or to waste an opportunity will result in grief and sorrow."

It's very crucial to try and create wonderful and happy memories in life.

There are often times when we take everything for granted, don't care or consider all the gifts and divine blessings we enjoy and pass our days sulky and with a terribly high negative attitude. However, this will turn into a memory too; but you can choose and make a clear decision in life; it is, indeed, an option and it depends on how you handle anything that comes your way.

It might rather seem easy to have a hopeless, and negative approach and criticize everything as it is; and then right there forget or even deny the unique role we can play to make some changes in the present situation and make a full colourful rainbow out of our life, shining with great moments and small joys and delights.

At the same time, you can be sulky and cross with just about everything and everyone in life and lead a painful life and suffer useless pain in your trivial daily issues and lose all your strength for no good reason.

We need to make this fact very clear for ourselves once and for all and realize that our thoughts, acts and behaviours, in addition to our words, create the life as we go along.

Therefore, in order to prove and express our gratitude towards Allah and the whole universe for all the uncountable gifts and blessings granted to us, we are obliged to live decently and respect life, nature, cosmos and humankind as a special creature; in addition to paying real respect to our own creation which is indeed an unimaginable miracle.

We live just once and we have a precious opportunity to make it worthwhile as long as we can and still have time for it. We must not lose time, kill time or waste our precious time because no matter what is going on, we can never save our time in life.

Whether we use it for better or worse, it just passes by like a flash and before we know it, our entire life turns into an image, a memory and that is all we can cling to, and feel proud about it as a person who has made any necessary attempt to live a full life and breathe in the air of divine energy and gifts.

On the contrary, if we have not made our life an enjoyable journey for ourselves and people around us, we will be stuck with a terrible sense of remorse and regret, but then again it is a little too late to go back in time and compensate for all that is lost and gone forever.

We should never underestimate our own unique and exclusive role in life and think properly and use our options well enough...