According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.
We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.