Live, Laugh And Love

I am ending this week's series about love with this one. If the last few years with covid had taught us anything it's that life is short. We don't know when our time will be up. When we will lose the people we love and depend on. We have this moment, right now, this second to show how much we care. We have this moment to put down our phones and live in the moment with our friends and family. We have this moment to laugh, to live large, and to do what we always wanted to because we don't know if we will be here next year, next week, or even tomorrow.

There should be no more I'll do it when… I lose weight, find someone or retire because you might just lose your chance. 

There is a song that I love called "Live like you were you were dying" by Tim Mcgraw. I remember when I lost a dear friend, he was only 40 when he died and this became my theme song ever since then.

In the song says he is told he is dying in his early forties so he says:

I went skydiving

I went Rocky Mountain climbing

I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

And I loved deeper

And I spoke sweeter

And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"

And he said

"Someday I hope you get the chance

To live like you were dying"

He said

"I was finally the husband

That most of the time I wasn't

And I became a friend a friend would like to have

And all of a sudden going fishin'

Wasn't such an imposition

And I went three times that year I lost my dad 

Well I, I finally read the Good Book, and I

Took a good, long, hard look

At what I'd do if I could do it all again

He becomes a better man doing all the things he should have done and tells us, the listeners, to always remember to live as if we knew we were dying. Do that stuff now, don't have any regrets at the end.

So today my friends we need to remember that we should all love and live like we were dying.

Love is an amazing thing, and like the subjects that I wrote about this week, we need to do all of these things.

We need to love ourselves, to love what we do, to show and tell others how much we love them. We must know that love doesn't hurt and we must live, laugh, and love large. You may not be given another day, another moment to do this, so do it now.

"Be the change you want to see"

@TreadmillTreats