On my way to work this morning, I left the house early enough to arrive respectively on time. I had enough time to look around at some of the neighborhoods
and their beauties. I could not believe how much had changed in areas I frequented daily and had been missing. While some
areas have increased in value with stores and populations others have
deteriorated miserably. In my ‘drive-thru’ moment, I did not pay too much
attention to my fellow drivers behind me. I was just about crossing an
intersection when a convertible tracker crossed me then drove right in front
of me. Needless to say that I was a little perturbed of this little malicious
behavior, but on the back of the truck where the spare tire is located, written in bold
white letters: “One Life to Live, So Live It.”
How many times have we said that to either
ourselves or to someone else? How many times these words simply fail to exist
as soon as we close our mouth after saying them? No matter how much we know we
only have one life to live, we seem to continue to live as if we have many in
front of us. Like the tracker driving suddenly in front of me, sometimes we
wait for some events to remind us of such truth.
Life as we know it keeps going no matter
what we do or say. If we do not pay attention we can easily miss important
occasions. Therefore, tackle every day as if it was the last day. Embrace every
moment, be wise, laugh out loud, enjoy the people in our life, be quick to
forgive and make up, and most of all get rid of don’t and can’t but create
sentences with do and can. We may have only one life to live, but we have many
chapters to turn.
© January 2013, Natacha Michel
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