Carpe Diem

"The future is promised to no one"
This has been said a million and a half times before, but I guess I'm truly just finding out how you never know which breath is your last. Things happen suddenly, and as much as we would like to think we are, we are not in control, but no matter what, we can put our faith that God is. One of my best friends lost someone special today, and she wasn't ready for it. I don't believe we can ever actually be "ready" for someone to be gone, from all we know, for good. What I do believe is that we were not meant to live our lives full of regrets and wishing things were different. So why not capture the moment and seize the day every chance you get?! What are we doing letting ourselves be lazy, not helping one another, and not doing things we wish we could do? If we aren't living life to the full, why are we living at all?

I remember someone remarking once that they would like to go to their own funeral to see who would show up, to see what would be said, to see what people thought of them. I thought it kinda silly at the time, but now when I think about it, it makes sense. Wouldn't a good way to go through life, weather your a Christian or not, be to keep the goal in mind that when you die you want people to remember what you did. Let's be honest, no one wants to go through life unnoticed and un-useful. We would all kill to look back on our lives after we had died and say, "Yeah, that was a good run. I made a difference for the better somewhere." Or have someone else say about us "That person had a good life, look at all the difference they made". All in all, it's not about us getting the glory for the difference though, it's that we had life enough in us to make one.

I think a lot of times people think that living life to the full is partying every Friday and Saturday and not caring about what people think of you, but can I ask, when was the last time you saw a drunk who was living for the weekend, who didn't give a flip about other's opinions and said to yourself "That person is getting everything they should out of life" (Hint: The answer is NEVER). Not caring what people think of you is so much different than putting what matters first, and pushing opinions not completely away, but aside. And not only that, but it's been shown over and over again, through years and years of history that we can't find our fill in Earthly things. Living life to the fullest should be defined as doing what your passionate about, and knowing your doing the right thing, and not making decisions that you could ever look back on and regret. We have to realize that we are not perfect, so of course we are going to screw up and regret some things, but instead of being confined and strapped to that regret, we should try and fix the situation, or let it go completely and knowing it's just a part of life, and being OKAY with it. Life isn't about being stuck in the past, it's about learning from it, so that we can improve our future, and hopefully the future of others too.

So stop sitting around and live! Carpe Diem! Viva la Vida! Amount to your total.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.  ~Zachary Scott


And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.  It's the life in your years.  ~Abraham Lincoln