Every second counts

So I'm sitting in the library at school and I'm listening to Kris Allen's "Live Like We're Dying" on my iPod. I took the liberty to look up the lyrics as the song plays. Listening to the song and following along with the lyrics, he makes good points throughout the song. Here are the lyrics so you can know what I'm talking about if you haven't already heard the song:

Sometimes we fall down and 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 too late, it's not too late

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

Yeah... we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start pickin' it
Every second counts on a clock that's tickin'
Gotta live like we're dying

We've only got
86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

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 be no one on the line

Yeah... we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start pickin' it
Every second counts on a clock that's tickin'
Gotta live like we're dying

We've only got
86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

Like we're dying, oh, like we're dying [x2]

We've only got
86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

You never know a good thing 'til it's gone
You never see a crash 'til it's head on
All those people right when we're dead wrong
You never know a good thing 'til it's gone

Yeah... we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start pickin' it
Every second counts on a clock that's tickin'
Gotta live like we're dying

We've only got
86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell 'em that we love 'em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

I don't think some people say the words "I Love You" enough to the people we care about most. When a couple family members and people in the community have died over the years, I started realizing that you never know who you're going to lose at any moment, and that you have to tell people how you truly feel about them. Tell family and friends you love them because you never know when they'll leave your life. I started saying "I love you" to the people that mean the most to me very often. I think they deserve to know that someone cares for them. I'm going to keep telling people I love them as much as I can because I don't want to regret not telling them if anything were to happen to them.

If your life flashed before you, what would you think about that you haven't done in your life? That's a good question that people might not be able to answer right away without thinking about it first, I being one of them. I'm going to make it a point to start a so-called "Bucket List" and write down everything I want to do before I die, realistically of course. I want to do so many things so writing them down should help.

If I were ever on a plane that happened to crash, or fall from the skies, I don't think I could call just one person. There are two very important people in my life that I would have to call, instead of just one. Those two people are my mother and my girlfriend. Thinking about it, I don't think I can choose which one to call if I were in that situation. I pray to God that I am never in that situation, but sadly, people have been. I think I would have to call my girlfriend first to tell her goodbye and that I loved her. I wouldn't call my mom first because I believe she knows that I do, and always will, love her and I think my mom could handle not talking to me before I passed better than my girlfriend. Of course, I would love to have enough time to call both my girlfriend and my mother but you never know.

 Just don't regret anything in your life and say "I love you" to the people that mean the most to you. Remember to smile and live life to its fullest because I was reminded not too long ago that people get taken from us way too soon and you will never know if it is your time or not so live life to its fullest and remember that 'every second counts.'

...The Limping Lizard.