A friend shared the following meme: “If this was the last week of your life, would you do what you are about to do? What would you change?” It struck me that if this were the case, it is already too late to change. Admittedly, I don’t do it well (in fact I do it quite poorly), but I want to live life like every breath could be my last. I don’t want to live in weeks but in moments.
I shared with my friend that I was sobered by the fact that, as I wrote my comments, Boston’s “Man I’ll Never Be” started playing on Pandora.
Life is an opportunity. Whether we are a breath, a day, a week, a year, or years away from death, we must be living Purposefully and as if every moment counted (because every moment does count.
We are in the midst of an international crisis. We are beginning to look toward getting back to some sense of “normalcy”. I hope that we might come out of this better—as individuals and as a society. I hope for a new “normal”. I can, however, only control who I allow myself to become.
Be your best today; be better tomorrow.
Carpe momento!
“A Man I’ll Never Be”
If I said what’s on my mind
You’d turn and walk away
Disappearing way back in your dreams
It’s so hard to be unkind
So easy just to say
That everything is just the way it seems
You look up at me
And somewhere in your mind you see
A man I’ll never be
If only I could find a way
I’d feel like I’m the man you believe I am
And it gets harder every day for me
To hide behind this dream you see
A man I’ll never be
I can’t get any stronger
I can’t climb any higher
You’ll never know just how hard I’ve tried
Cry a little longer
And hold a little tighter
Emotions can’t be satisfied
You look up at me
And somewhere in your mind you see
A man I’ll never be
If only I could find a way
I’d feel like I’m the man you believe I am
And it gets harder every day for me
To hide behind this dream you see
A man I’ll never be
Writer: Tom Scholz