It’s simple, because tomorrow is not guaranteed, seriously! I mean we hear people say that all the time but it’s really true. Reality really hit me hard when two of my family members passed away from covid19. It happened so suddenly and my family and I were in disbelief.  

After that experience my perspective about life changed for the better and I want to live my best life now!

Since then I have created a bucket list of the most adventurous things that I have always been curious about and I want to cross many of them off as soon as possible.

I always wanted to go skydiving, but I thought I should do it when I am turning 50 or something like Will Smith did, because half a century would feel like a huge milestone.  But then again, i said to myself, what if i don’t live until 50 then what? 

So for my 31th birthday on June 20th, I decided to go for it. I went skydiving! It was the most exhilarating thing I could have ever done in my entire life! It really opened the gate for me to feel fearless about everything in life. It even inspires me to write the first poem about my life. I Called it Building A Home.

Whenever I am doing something out of the ordinary or out of my comfort zone I will always think about the day I jumped out of an airplane and the feeling I felt. I went from being super scared to feeling free. What I want y’all to understand is this, if you don’t live your best life now, when are you going to do it? Once you become a corpse, none of it matters anymore. 

Don’t let fear limit you from exploring the world. Live Your Best Life Now!

Poem:

BUILDING A HOME

By: Samantina Zenon

Blood on the floor 

of a house that

was never home

an inconvenient child

I took what you gave

until i jumped

thin air caught me 

clean and free

and unbound to 

the weight of 

what you gave

I spun spun 

until i could 

hear hummingbirds

again

see the green

of the brave living

things

like me 

making home for themselves.

Free fall,

I became an eagle.

I am free now.

I am healed now.

home is the place

I found in the clouds

A smile spreading fast

across my face 

like wind.

Kissing away all of my pains. 

And this time it won’t be like last time.

what I lost no match for 

what I found. 

I found Joy!

Because I am home now.