live each day as if it were my last, but learn each day as if I'll live forever

I have a busy schedule: Work,School, track, Student council… all to busy but i make the most out of all the events. I make sure i have a reason to smile and to laugh at myself! Even if i have a bad day i try to think of all the good moments that i have had!!!

On Good Friday a friend of mine died. About two weeks before that, he found out he was sick. Two weeks. I am not unfamiliar with the feeling of grief for friends and family, but this is different. He was not an addict. He was not old. He was not a person with many unhealthy behaviors. He was just our church organist and choirmaster, and one day he noticed a lump on his back. And two weeks later he died.

I have, for the last few years, begun to really live my life. I’m working toward important goals, and doing a lot to help my local community. This is really making me look again, though, and really evaluate whether I am making the most of the time that I have.

That describes how I feel about life right now. I don’t have a terminal disease and I’m in better shape now than I have been in years, but I want to do the best that I can to get the most out of life. There’s only so many days, and we don’t know the number. How I feel about this is as follows:

If I were to die today, how would I be remembered? Would I have led a full life? or would it be squandered, a pointless existence that merely occupied space and time.

While I think I’m far from that extreme, I want to continue to accelerate away.

I am learning to live each day as if it were my last. I am in a drug rehab program and thinking this way not only helps me to stay clean but it also helps me to se lifein a different way. To do this I look in the mirror every night and congratulate myself on my achievments for the day. This way I am learnng to value myself and understand that your life can end from one moment to the next. If I have problems with someone i try not to leave things unresolved or to leave the things until tomorrow. I for one do not know if i will wake up tomorrow.

i decided to get rid of goals like this ( well, at least of a few of them). cause this is not an actual goal, it is kind of a life philosophy which i try to live anyway, cause otherwise i would not have the best possible life i can have…so bye bye goal

it gets our life more tasty and more colorful

Hope all this is rewarding cause it can rally change lives can’t it…if you think about it most ppl aren’t like this so to actually do this takes more than most think right?

I’m surrounded by intelligent people and I love listening to what they have to say and learning from them but I have yet to learn to live my life. One day at a time I guess

I’ve had my share of friends dying, the most recent being this past thanksgiving, and I’m just 17. Kowing so many people who died before they even graduated high school (most in accidents), I realized that death doesn’t discriminate and anyone, at anytime, can come to their end, and if you don’t accomplish what you want to in this world, it doesn’t matter if your time is up. In my life so far, I’ve been to around 30 funerals and I even remember a time when my family’s answering machine was simply “We’ve had a death in the family, please leave your message after the beep” and it was like that for 3 or 4 months, during which we had 8 family members die. For 2 years now (after a close friend of mine died) I’ve made a conscious decision to try and live like this, and so far it has been very rewarding.

This is why you need to appriciate every single second you have with loved ones. This is also why you should learn and see as much of the world as possible, for you could live till you are 125 for all you know.