Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Live In The Moment

"You have to fight for what you believe in.
You have to wait for the dream,
Go and get it now.
You have to pick things up where you left off.
And Don't look back.
I still believe in living my chance.
I know they could never take that.
This is a song for all our bad luck.
Maybe you'll never come back."
--School Boy Humor "Don't Look Back"

Dear Diary,

I'm sorry I haven't written to you in so long, diary. I had an unforseen problem occur and had to go to the hospital. Life's funny that way. You never really know what's going to happen next. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I've been thinking about how you never really know what's around the next corner. You never know where you are going to be in a few minutes, hours, or days. I've learned this lesson many times throughout my life, but it really hit me when I got sick. One minute you can be completely fine and the next on your way to the hospital.
There is no way to predict what's going to happen in the future. There is no way to predict how life is going to turn out. There is no way to prevent the future from happening either.
It's frustrating, diary, but it's also a blessing.
Life was never meant to be easy. It was never meant to be a piece of cake, but life isn't about how many struggles we deal will. It isn't about the problems we face, but rather how we overcome the curve balls. How we overcome the struggle and survive.
Life is about living in the moment.
It is about taking everything with a grain of salt and pulling through. It's about not worrying what the future holds because we can't control it. It's about fighting for what we want right now. It's about always saying what's is on your mind and thinking before we say something mean.
It's about smiling and being happy despite the mountains we need to climb.
Because we aren't promised one more moment to tell the people we love that we love them.
We aren't promised extra time to say we're sorry to people when it's time to go.
We aren't promised an extra day to become the person we have always wanted to be.
We aren't promised extra months to do the things we've always wanted to.
We aren't promised more time, but we are promised this moment right now.
Being sick helped me to learn that.
It helped me realize that I need to cherish every moment I have. It helped me learn that I need to tell people how I feel, but never leave a conversation with a mean comment
Because I won't get the extra time to apologize someday.
I won't get the extra time to take back what I said.
Being sick helped me to learn that every moment, every word counts because you never know when your last moment is.

Forever & Always,
Me


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