It seems that each time we hear of someone under the age of 100 that passed away, someone else pops up and says, “Life is short…live each day like it was your last.”
So…do we really eat the entire chocolate cake, have one last fling, max out our credit cards, tell someone what you’ve really thought of them all these years, and tell your boss to piss up a rope? With very little thought process, any one of us could come up with hundreds of other ‘live-like-it-was-your-last-day’ suggestions.
In all practicality, doing any of these things would probably not end well. Someone, including ourselves, would suffer from the selfishness of these decisions, and there would be hell to pay.
Can you just imagine a world where everyone lived each day like it was their last? It would be absolute chaos.
When you wake up the next day, it just so happens that yesterday was not your last day on earth. Now what? You may be out of a job, in debt, sick from eating too much cake, short a friend or two, and you may have to do some fast talking to your spouse / significant other.
Someone I know is in the final stages of life and under normal conditions, would probably have another twenty to thirty years to live. I’m very sad about this for several reasons…one of which is a secret that only a handful of people know about.
This person is in love with someone and vice versa…and these feelings have been going on for years. They do not act upon this love and cannot be together. Their relationship, by all appearances, is a friendship and I have never seen anything between them except this friendship…but I know the deeper truth.
Since I’m a romantic and look at this flawed world through rose-colored glasses, my heart aches because of this impending death and that these two people cannot ride off into the sunset together…like they could in the movies. They are good, honest, family-oriented, God-fearing people who deserve to be together.
Someday they will…
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