"Live Like Your Dying" Kris Allen

Have you ever listened to this song … no, I mean really listened to this song?

Sometimes we fall down, can't get back up

We're hiding behind skin that's too tough

How come we don't say I love you enough

Till it's to late, it's not too late

Our hearts are hungry for a food that won't come

And we could make a feast from these crumbs

And we're all staring down the barrel of a gun

So if your life flashed before you,

What would you wish you would've done

Chorus:
Yeah, we gotta start

Looking at the hands of the time we've been given

If this is all we got and we gotta start thinking

If every second counts on a clock that's ticking

Gotta live like we're dying

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to

Turn it all around or to throw it all away

We gotta tell them that we love them

While we got the chance to say

Gotta live like we're dying

What matters the most in life to you? Have you put off someone or something that you love and that brings you joy because they/it isn’t on your schedule saying "later" – or " "When I’m not so busy"?

And if your plane fell out of the skies

Who would you call with your last goodbye

Should be so careful who we live out our lives

So when we long for absolution,

There'll no one on the line, yeah

Yeah, we gotta start

Looking at the hands of the time we've been given

If this is all we got and we gotta start thinking

If every second counts on a clock that's ticking

Gotta live like we're dying

Who would you call? Have you told them you love them today? Say, you love ice cream, but have given it up for “health reasons” (okay, dieting!) … if you were hit by a bus tomorrow, would that matter? Take the better alternative eat fat/sugar free … these days they are just as yummy – be flexible.

You never know a good thing till it's gone

You never see a crash till it's head on

Why do we think we're right when we're dead wrong

You never know a good thing till it's gone

Our lives accelerate, it seems the days get shorter, list of promises get longer and a lot of what we end up with are “I need to ….. I plan to ….. Someday when I’m not so busy I’m going to.” Do you lay in bed with a hundred of chores running through your head, ever lost touch with a friend or family member?

I say we seize the day, take our lives back! Each morning we are presented with a valuable gift – a new day, it can be anything we allow it to be. Like the unopened gift it is, we need to take care in opening it and not waste every precious moment with “have to dos” (yes, there are some things that have to be done, jobs to be gone too, chores and errands to tend to .. but as the old saying goes: take time to smell the roses! Find a joyous thing – anything – to marvel in for 5 minutes … discover something that matters!

http://www.1000thingsthatmatter.com/index.php

I personally like No. 907

:-)