Saturday, January 07, 2006

Everybody dies. Not everybody truly lives.

I once wrote a blot about ellipsis. It talked about how everything was okay because we have ellipsis, we have a choice to change things. I want to clarify (partly just because I heard a great quote from Garden State and partly because I want to). We have what we have right now.
I was talking with one of my awesome friends about what we would do if we only had a year to live. We came to some sort of conclusion (if it can be called that) that we should live like we were gonna die soon. Now, I could be saying this like some sort of trendy catch-phrase thrower, but I am not. I am saying this like I want it to seep down into your bones and move you (like those sea turtles on Finding Nemo who go in that big Australian current):
YOu hAve ToDAy. ToMMOrow iS nOt yoURs to OWn.
"Live Like You're Dying."
Life. I think I am understanding a little more of it.
To live is to have passion. It is to acknowledge what you have right now. You have life. You could not have it. That's how you live. You take the oppurtunity of this great gift because, for all you know, you could not have this gift.

let it sink... let it sink...
let it sink...
let it sink... let it sink...
cliche, or whatever, the fact remains that if you truly understand this more and you'll get 'it' more.
shalom.

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