Knife's Edge
I was wisely given the advice to either get busy living or get busy dying once. I get the point of that sentiment. I really don’t think people say that to emphasize that you need to make a choice to do one or the other. The point seems to me to be that maybe we really don’t have a choice.
Life is all that we have.
Three deaths and two funerals lately has left me a bit stunned. I still do not believe/understand/accept the line between life and death and I think it is quite possible that the lives of these people and families highlights this even stronger for me but in a different way.
I do know this: there is no way to fully put into words just how much we under-appreciate the gift of life every day.
Go to bed
Wake up
Send your kids off
Go about your day
See your friends
Enjoy your family
Make plans for the future
Live your carefreehappygoluckynotacareinthefuckingworld life…….
Do we ever think about how fragile the gift of life that we are given from God really is? The line is thin. The moment is quick. The promise is shattered. It disappears in a blink. It is gone forever.
Life is all that we have, and maybe it really does not belong to us.
A thousand more
A thousand times
A million doors to eternity
I may have lived a thousand lives
A thousand times
An endless turning stairway climbs to a tower of souls
If it takes another thousand years
A thousand wars
The towers rise
To numberless floors in space
I could shed another million tears
A million breaths
A million names
But only one truth to face
posted by Booster MPS at
7:20 PM
4 Comments:
*sigh*
Ever since my mom passed away this has gone though my head over and over again.
And as we get older, does everyone else also question thier faith in the hereafter?
Or do we need to remember that the *now* is more important? What is the right thing to believe?
We do what we know, we live what we know, we are the *now*.
I am thankful for every little thing today.
I'll answer another movie quote...
Bruce Wayne: "I'm not afraid of you."
Carmine Falcone: "Because you think you've got nothing to lose. But you haven't thought it through.
"People from your world... have so much to lose. Now you think that because your mommy and your daddy got shot, you know about the ugly side of life, but you don't. You've never tasted desperate. You're Bruce Wayne, the Prince of Gotham, you'd have to go a thousand miles to meet someone who didn't know your name, so don't come down here with your anger, trying to prove something to yourself. This is a world you'll never understand. And you always fear what you don't understand."
And if you aren't busy living then you are busy dying. And another quote because I just thought of it..."Remember those posters that said, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life?' Well, that's true with every day except one: the day that you die. "
Hey buddy... the life here IS short and gone before we know it. But we both know there is gloriously more after this time here. And with the way this world is going lately, I have my bags packed and ready to go! LOL
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