Why do we live like we aren’t going to die?

Why do we live like we aren’t going to die? We get caught up in the small things. We get caught up in the daily grind. In the routine of the week. We start to become numb to the repetition of life. It’s hard not to. Days become weeks, become months become years. Things start to feel the same. They feel comfortable. Our bodies love comfort. We keep things the same and don’t change. But we forget that the days are fleeting. That there will be days where all we are capable of doing is hanging on, but that there needs to be days where we wake up and choose how we want to live.

Yesterday I was talking to someone at my dentist’s office about vacations. She said she hadn’t gone away in four years and wanted to take a trip but wasn’t sure if she should go this year or not. It was hard to decide where and it seemed like a lot of bother. I looked at her and said, ‘If not now, then when?’ She looked right up at me and said, ‘Hmm, I guess you are right’. She then said sometimes we get reminders. And told me about someone who had passed away in the family. She said, ‘You get reminders sometimes, but then you forget.’

And I think that’s it. We get reminders sometimes, but we forget. That' we aren’t guaranteed tomorrow. We aren’t guaranteed anything at all. That all we have is this moment. So put up those quotes, write in your journal, put a post-it on your window. Do whatever you can to remind yourself that every day is a miracle. Make a choice every day to live like it.