"Did you live?" - Life

So you are planning to spend

the years of unmatched energy levels

and enthusiasm,

running after goals which are not yours

worrying to complete the tasks

which don’t really yield anything,

just so that one day -

when all of life has been sucked out of you,

when those unmatched levels of energy

would be a thing of the past -

you can say with a sense of pride:

"I am retired"

“I have worked 50 years to reach here”

only to find life standing in front of you

with its one and only question:

"Did you live?"

and you stand looking perplexed

and feeling betrayed

like a student in an exam

who sees an out-of-syllabus question,

because all your life

you were expecting to be asked in the end:

"Did you complete everything on time?"

"Did you work enough hours?"

" Did you run fast enough?"

"Did you possess enough material?"

"Did you talk shit about enough people?"

"Did you deceive enough people?"

?

But it's too late until we realize this.

Too late to look into the course of our lives.

Too late to analyze what made us choose the things which we prioritize our entire life.

Too late to ask "Was it all worth it?"