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Live your life like it’s last call

by Jummy

The title is from a song whose chorus goes:

Every life first the sun then the night falls
We’re all on borrowed time
I’ll never say goodbye
Take your time live your life like it’s last call
Don’t wanna see you cry
We’ll never say goodbye


When somebody dies we are reminded of our own mortality. We’re reminded to live every day to the fullest because we don’t know if it will be our last. It’s very scary to think that you may not live to see tomorrow, or your plans for next week, but that is the way life is (a trite answer, perhaps but a very true one).

I would like to challenge you as I challenge myself to live each day to the fullest. It is far too easy to get caught up in the full time job, the part time job, children, friends, moving from one activity to another, trying to earn more money, save more money, volunteering your time to everyone and everything, that you may not have taken any time to examine your life and see what it’s like. Do you enjoy your life? Are there moments of quiet mingled in with the bustle? If you find time to volunteer for certain causes, are you making sure that you are equally generous with your time and/or money to the friends and family around you?

Needless to say, this last point strikes a huge chord within me. I have a large family and there isn’t a day that goes by where I’m not snapping at, or scrapping with at at least one of them, yet I am able to go to work and be cordial and friendly with my coworkers. I hold the door for complete strangers and smile at people I don’t know on the bus. It seems I save my very worst behaviour for my “loved ones”. If my time were to be up tonight, would I be proud of their last memory of me?

Absolutely not.

My challenge then, is to treat each day as if it were your last. Tell your loved ones that you love them-and show it! Be more generous (God has given me so much, and I’m often too busy trying to get more to actually take stock of it. Taking stock of your blessings might be the first step). Smile more. Spend more time with your family, instead of shutting them out with the television or computer.

We’re all on borrowed time.

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Posted in Ordinary life, Relationships, Self on July 24th, 2007

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