"If today was your last day
And tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last?
Leave old pictures in the past
Donate every dime you have?
If today was your last day.
Would you call old friends you never see?
Reminisce old memories
Would you forgive your enemies?
Would you find that one you're dreamin' of?
Swear up and down to God above
That you finally fall in love
If today was your last day."
- IF TODAY WERE YOUR LAST DAY; Nickelback
If you close your eyes tonight and never re-opened them, what kind of last day would you have had?
The world will be gone. Time is set to be an echo. You have 24 hours left in which to exist.
It could happen. The funny thing about life is, trouble never comes from where you expect it.
You spend two months worried about interviewing for that big job promotion,
then on your way there, you die of a heart attack brought on by all that stress.
Super-volcanoes, a Verne-Shot (which combines the super-volcano scenario with an asteroid strike, fun, right?),
Gamma Ray Burst from our sun,
engineered diseases or something totally out of left field could end life as we know it.
But for you ... for me ... the world could end tomorrow.
Heart attack, mugger, or drunk driver. Any of those three could end your life suddenly.
"There is only one time that is important: NOW.
It is the most important because it is the only one over which we have any control."
- Leo Tolstoy
Appreciate your job if you can ...
If you just "Survive" your job, you are wasting 71% of your life. (5 out of the 7 days of the week.)
Forgive if you can ...
What someone did to hurt you was their fault. Carrying it with you for each day afterwards is all on you.
Focus on the NOW ...
The Past and the Future are illusions. NOW is the only reality.
If you grasp after ghosts, you, yourself, are not living. You are making of yourself a ghost.
Appreciate what and who you have while you have it and them.
Here is Stephen King on my favorite novel of his, DUMA KEY