When you get to a certain age, you start to realize where you came from and the things you’ve been through in your early years. You remember growing up, you remember high school, your friends, your family, your first job, your first kiss and everything that went with those days.
I had the priviledge and honor of growing up with some amazing people. But it wasn’t until my later years that I realized just how much I missed out on. The questions I could have asked, the lessons I could have learned and the stories I could have heard. There is so much history that I missed out on, so much I could have learned about how things were before I ever came into existence.
It’s why I don’t take things or people for granted these days. Though I do have a job and there are things that I enjoy doing, I don’t miss an opportunity to learn from those around me and enjoy being with the people I love. I don’t want to look back in another 20-plus years and wonder what could have been.
There’s a quote that will be so important to me when, God willing, I have a family of my own. “When your days on earth are done, do you want your headstone to say ‘I wish I would have spent more time at work.”
These days, we always look to tomorrow. We procrastinate because we think we have another day coming around. But what if you didn’t have that day gauranteed to you? What if this were your last day on earth? What would the people around you say about you when they’re asked?
I don’t know about you, but I’d want people to look back and smile about my life. I want them to say….he lived and he made a difference.
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