Grateful to Be Alive; You Sure Don’t Act Like it?
By: Lance Winslow
Are you grateful just to be alive? Do you wake up each day and think to yourself; wow it sure is good to be alive? Indeed I bet if you were facing a life threatening illness you would be; doubt it? Well then go to a hospice and talk with some folks about this subject or discuss this with cancer survivors or those who have just come back from the war.
Ask them are you just glad to be alive? They will say; Oh yes and indeed they will really mean it too. So back to the question at hand; are you grateful to be alive?
Well are you just happy to smell the flowers and feel all of life? Are you satisfied feeling the joy and laughter as well as the sorrow and the pain? It is all part of your life experience and it all has value. If you do not understand this perhaps you need to re-evaluate a little.
Are you living up to your potential and actually living each day to its fullest? If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, well what sorts of things would you do today? Anything special, your answer is yes, probably you would do some things different wouldn’t you and if so what would they be? And may I please ask you something, why are you not doing those very things right now today?
Why live in mediocrity when you can chase your dreams and really live in the here and now. Do not delay live for today. Consider all this in 2006.
Lance Winslow