August 19, 2025- I am sure there will be those who hear the topic of “choose to love life” and will be saying,”I don’t have much to love in my life, so there is very little to choose.” I will respect your view but say you have to take another look at your life if you want to be happy. I strongly say if you choose to love life that you can be much happier and look forward to each day that you live. I strongly believe that persons choose the happiness they have in their lives. This is said, even acknowledging that many persons have more advantages in their lives to make them happy, but the ultimate choice of the level of choosing to love life we have is within ourselves. To love life is to enjoy the road we experience on our one time trip on earth. Whether or not one believes in an eternal life after we die, the one thing we know for sure is that we are on earth and we have a finite amount of time to live here. The point is not for you to wake up at 80 years old and realize you have not enjoyed the road and have not loved life. Loving life is seeing each day as a new experiment for you to try out all the things you have learned on how to be happy and how to love life. In order to love life, we need to love ourselves, we need to be cultivating happiness and positivity in our lives, we need to be showing gratitude for what we have, we need to eat healthy and nourish the body that we have to make sure it functions at its highest possible level, we need to be living in the now and not letting the past control the present and future or focusing only on the future and not enjoying the present. Overall, we need a philosophy of life that promotes love of life that is nourished by the constant challenges of life and the fulfillment that comes from successfully meeting them. We love life if we see it as an opportunity to not just make ourselves happy, but to also demonstrate love and caring in a way that we help others to the point that our life has been significant with a meaningful purpose. When we choose to love life, we are becoming a model for other people to make them happier and more successful in life in addition to making ourselves happier with the love for life we are experiencing that we have chosen.