Why is it that everyday we live life like we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll live forever? We put things off that we know we want to do. We forget to tell the ones we love, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I love you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nWe think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have forever to change our ways, but yet we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what the next five minutes will hold.
\nI read this past week about a lady who attended the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and collapsed on her way back to her hotel.
\nShe began having seizures and was rushed to the ER, where she spent the night slipping in and out of consciousness.
\nShe said she literally thought she was going to die. She truly believed that she would not make it.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u009dThe next morning, when it was clear I was going to be fine, everything looked a little more beautiful,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she wrote. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Trees were greener. The sky was bluer. People were nicer and better-looking. And all I could think about was how damn lucky I was.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great Tim McGraw song on the radio now called, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Live Like You Were Dying.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nThe song tells the story of a man who faced death and started living like he really had nothing left to lose.
\nThe chorus is simple but strong, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I went skydiving. I went rocky mountain climbing. I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu. And I loved deeper. And I spoke sweeter. And I gave forgiveness I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been denyin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. And he said some day I hope you get the chance to live like you were dyin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all had our close calls — some closer than others.
\nMaybe it was a car accident that happened only moments before you arrived or seconds after you left a scene, a fall that could have been much worse than it was, a fire that you barely escaped, a cancer diagnosis that you overcame.
\nWe all discover how precious life is in those moments.
\nIf we can hang on to that feeling, think about how richer our lives will be.
\nBut yet we forget about how wonderful and exciting life can be. I do it daily. I get bummed and discontent with things and forget to look at how much there really is to enjoy.
\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so easy for me to lose my passion in the things I do each and every day.
\nWe all know that if we can hang on to that feeling, our lives will be richer.
\nIf we did those things we kept putting off, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d enjoy life so much more.
\nOr as Tyler Durden says in the movie Fight Club, after threatening to kill the shop clerk unless the clerk pursues his original dream of becoming a vet, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tomorrow his breakfast will taste better than it ever has…\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nMy favorite movie line in history is from the Million Dollar Hotel.
\nAs the movie opens we see a young man running and jumping off the roof of a Los Angeles Hotel and he thinks as he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s falling, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It occurred to me after I jumped\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Life is perfect, life is beautiful.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nApple CEO and founder Steve Jobs gave a commencement speech at Stanford several weeks ago and wrote about his passion for life.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153…for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And whenever the answer has been \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nJobs was given only three to six months to live last year when he was diagnosed with cancer. Now he lives each day like it was his last.
\nIf we could wake up each day and remember those close calls or think about what could happen today and live like there was no tomorrow, how different would we be?<\/p>\n
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