Are we living like we're dying?


"Live Like We're Dying," by Kris Allen. The chorus goes:
Yea, we gotta start
Looking at the hands of time we've been given
If this is all we got and we gotta start thinking
If every second counts on a clock that's ticking
Gotta live like we're dying
We only got 86,400 second in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying
I heard this the other day on the radio and I was reflecting on the message of the song. How should our lives look like when we live like we're dying? If death were imminent, that would seem to be the only time we realize how much we haven't taken advantage of the opportunities to tell people we love them or show them that we care. Often times we get caught up with the insignificance that we rarely remember what's significant.

Every day our lives involve constant interaction with the people around us (unless you live in isolation, which would be very unfortunate :/ ). We interact with our family, relatives, friends, close friends, best friends, coworkers, neighbors, acquaintances; gym buddies, lunch buddies, club buddies, art buddies, study buddies; classmates, teammates, group mates, church mates, shipmates, soul mates, common-interest-mates...and even strangers! Have I left any one out? lol.

The point I'm trying to make is that we must learn to take hold of those moments where we get to let the aforementioned individuals know how grateful we are to be blessed by them. Expressing our thankfulness can look like: writing them a little 'thank you' note, treating them out for burgers (or a mediterranean flatbread pizza if they're vegetarian!), washing & cleaning their beat up car, giving them the bigger piece of your shared giant chocolate chip cookie, staying up all night with them as they write their last minute term paper, letting them watch that Spongebob rerun for the 8th time, resisting to pull away from their smelling kisses, offering to pay for the fast food order of the person behind you at the drive-through, or being the first one to say 'sorry' & forgive them even if it wasn't your fault.

I don't want to wait until my dying days to appreciate the people who have left a lasting impression on my life. Would you?

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