If you only had one year...

    I started reading a book called Deadline, I don't know the auther sorry. But its a good easy read (I only got to chapter 4 or 5) but I have to worn you there is a lot of swearing. The premise of the book is talking about a boy who has a year left to live.

    I asked my family if they only had one year to live, what they would do.
Some sat in thought, others said sky diving, bunji jumping.

    What would you do? Would you marry your BF or GF, would you think more on your education, or party the nights away. How would you want to be remembered? What would you want your legacy to be?

    Would you want to be known as the slut that never accouplished anything, or the nerd that no one remembers from school? The know it all jock that picked on the younger little kids? How would you want to be remebered?

    How do you want people to say your name, with discust? Hatered? Anger? Pitty? Sadness?

  There is a country song by Tim McGraw called Live Like You Were Dying.

"He said
"I was in my early forties
With a lot of life before me
And a moment came that stopped me on a dime
I spent most of the next days
Looking at the x-rays
Talkin' 'bout the options
And talkin' 'bout sweet time"
I asked him
"When it sank in
That this might really be the real end
How's it hit you
When you get that kind of news?
Man, what'd you do?"

He said
"I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
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
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
And then

I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Blue 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
Like tomorrow was a gift
And you've got eternity
To think about
What you'd do with it
What could you do with it
What did I do with it?
What would I do with it?

Skydiving
I went Rocky mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Blue Manchu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I watched an eagle as it was flying"
And he said
"Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying""

    I just love the messege of this song. But don't wait till your dying to live your life, live it now, don't wait for something to happen to know what you were meant to do.