Live like you’re dying… Live like you’re… Live like you’re dying…. As it echoes through my head I get a slight sense of nostalgia. Then I remembered that we have tackled it in one of our retreats. Those are the words that compose the new single of Kris Allen, the winner of the previous American Idol. As the title suggests we should live each day as if it’s our last, that kind of message is not uncommon to the world of music. Actually there are a lot of songs that would tell us about we should live each day to the fullest. But what caught my attention was the line that talks about we should tell our love ones that we loved them since as of now we still got the time.

Yeah it’s true that it is hard to tell our parents, our friends, our partners that we loved them for there are tendencies that we would become to shy and just ignore those little feelings inside us but we should also remember that those little feelings does count as something big for them. I also remembered a story that was told when I was still in elementary or was it in high school. My subject teacher told us that we should say I love you to our parents before it’s too late, that we should give them flowers today since today they will be able to appreciate it and not the contrary in which we would offer flowers or throw it at the top of their coffins. For even if the whole bunch of flowers would be expensive or the most beautiful of all that bloomed here on earth, if they won’t still be able to see and appreciate what you have given them then all of it are meaningless. We might have offered them something nice, something beautiful but someone dead could not say a word of thanks to us.

The point of the whole article and of the song is the title itself. Kind of funny since everyone might notice it but not everyone would be able to grasp or absorb its real meaning for those phrases is always seen and read. Too bad that those little words are just taken for granted, thinking that living a life full of entertainment would satisfy them but what would really satisfy us is the feeling of being loved, of being appreciated, of being understood, of being recognized, of being seen as the person who we are and not what they want us to be. Live like you’re dying: tell them that you loved them, appreciate every good thing they have done, try to understand every complex detail in their being and in that way they would also learn to do that to you.

Have the guts… Pull up some courage and express your inner self, for we don’t hold the time in our hands…

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