Live Like There's No Tomorrow

Most people tend to remember the significance of time in a dangerous or urgent situation.  They realize that the only way that ‘time’ exists is in the reality that there is not enough of it.  There is never enough time in these moments of life and death.  How can there be?  When the possibility of an end stares us right in the eye, what is there to think about besides time?  What is there to remind ourselves of other than the fact that we suddenly might not have those extra hours we talked about earlier, or that idea of tomorrow that sounded so great this morning?

They say your life flashes before your eyes when you’re about to die but do you ever wonder if that also happens when someone you love is the person dying?  And instead of your life flashing before your eyes, it’s your life with that person?  Whatever the answer is, it all comes to the same conclusion.

There should have been more time.  We should have spent more time doing this with that person, or doing this with another person.  We should have spent more time saying these words or loving these moments.  We should have spent more time living to the last hour of the day.  We should have spent more time living like time was running out.  All those sentences have something in common; the idea of more time.

Unfortunately, it is one of those things that we’ll always long for, but never truly obtain.