These past few months I have been hit with some hard life circumstances. It's shown me even more so how we should take every day as a gift. Yes - it's corny and so many people say things like that trying to be all goody two shoes themselves, but I genuinely have seen how life can be here one day and then gone the next.
A friend of mine from Texas that use to run around in the same circle of friends as me died in a car accident Saturday night. Just last weekend he was in a wedding of a mutual friend of ours and now he's no longer here. Isn't that baffling? I can't seem to fully wrap my head around the concept that we truly could be walking down the stairs and next thing you know you're gone. Makes you think twice about the things you gripe and moan about. What if we were to wake every morning and know that at 5pm we would be dead? How different would we act that day? I know for I would have enjoyed my Greek yogurt just now a little bit more and made that phone call to a friend that I've been putting off. Yet most of us get second, third and millions of other chances to restart every day. My friend, Kevin, who passed away doesn't ever get to press that restart button again.
Life is short and it's so bittersweet. Am I taking advantage of every single second of the day? Am I truly living? It's something to think about when the next move you make could be your very last and the the next person you say anything to could be the last person you see. Take it all in and appreciate. It's life.
