I think about it everyday and I think it's something that everyone should ask themselves...If you were to leave this earth at any second, would you be leaving behind a legacy of something beautiful that you yourself created or an unfinished story that ended way too soon before it could turn into something life changing?
At the moment I'm sitting in my room listening to my ipod. The song that's filling my room is "Brothers on a hotel bed" by Death Cab for Cutie. I don't know why, but the minute this song started playing an overwhelming feeling of inspiration to write to you all about my view on life came upon me. I have no idea what I'm going to write, this is all in the spear of moment so bear with me ;)
My morning consisted of me being at the VA hospital with my mother for her knee surgery. There were army veterans there with so many interesting stories to tell and family members waiting to hear the comforting words of the surgeon that their beloved family member had made it through their surgery just fine. For some bizarre reason I got to thinking about what if today was my last day on this earth. What would I be leaving behind? How would people remember me? Would I be an example to those who knew me or would I be just another tragedy? Did I do all I could before my time was up? Did I really ever reach my destiny or complete the mission that God put me on this earth for? Now I'm not going to sit here and preach for twenty minutes about the person you should be or what's right or wrong, but what am going to tell you is that you only have one life to live and choosing to take risky chances in messing it all up, in the end, isn't worth it.
See, life has too much offer for you to just give up and choose to do things that would cause our generation to throw up their middle fingers and scream at the top of their lungs "YOLO!" The next time you think about doing that, think of the cancer patient in the hospital that just received news that their "one life to live," in the next 6 months be over. Or the mother of four whose husband is serving our country and his life could be taken any second of the day. Yes, you only live once, but if you're not living it to it's full potential, then you're not "living" at all. We're young and what we don't realize is that we all have a clean canvas to paint anything that we want on it. We can make our lives into a beautiful, powerful piece of artwork, but it takes one time to mix the wrong two colors that could ruin the entire picture.
When my time is up on this earth I want people to remember me as a passionate young woman who had many dreams and tried her hardest to make them all come true. I want to be known as a young woman who loved others more than she loved herself. I want to leave people with happy feelings about me instead of grief and pain. Don't you want the same?
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