80% of life is showing up

a professor quoted
“50% of life is showing up”
I looked up the quote
and it had an increase
“80% of life is showing up”
amazingly true, I thought
I enjoy showing up, even unexpected
everywhere is a good outcome
Its past is explanatory
and there’s no need to question why
its present is exciting
and there’s a need to fully explore it
its future is strategic and wise
and needless of worry
“There’s nothing new under the sun”
yet we don’t live long enough to discover the smallest amount
of what is under the sun
there’s no time to not show up
to risk, to explore, to fail and to be rejected
is just a challenge of life
to “prove yourself a man”
to prove yourself a woman
and to stand up to holy standards
is when we stop feeling bored
because life is beautiful and beyond our expectations
and to love, to laugh, to design and to be optimistic
is when we truly begin to live