Today, I realized I had a terminal illness. This isn’t something I recently acquired but it was something I was born with. And oddly enough, I’m all Pharrell (Happy!) about it!
Don’t get nervous, Mom, and don’t get too excited for that life insurance policy just yet, wifey! I didn’t get diagnosed with any life threatening disease and wasn’t told by a doctor to “get my affairs in order.”
What happened was I had a realization that I was born with that dreaded terminal illness called LIFE! Yep, the moment we were born, each and every one of was infected with something that is bringing us a little closer to the cemetery each and every day - mortality.
Shit’s tough to hear but it is true. No one is gonna make it outta here alive. The coffin is calling. That day may come today, tomorrow or 50 years from now but this disease called life is going to do its job and plant us six feet under…someday. Eventually. Hopefully not soon, but it’s inevitable.
OK, so why are you telling me this, Dr. Jeff, other than to bum me way the heck out? Well, I would like to say I have discovered a cure but I haven't. What I can prescribe is a little dose of reality that I am trying to swallow every day as well.
Prescription 1.) To Be Taken As Needed - like when you get in a life-rut
Tell yourself that your time on this big, magical ball is limited - it will end! Like a good 12 step program, the first step is admitting we have this disease! We are going to die...but we have this special moment in time.
Prescription 2.) To Be Taken Daily
This daily dose is actually the hardest to swallow. Live YOUR Life! Go out there and take a chance, risk looking stupid, be afraid, f*ck up. Who cares? It’s not gonna kill you…but even if it does, that is going to happen anyway!
But the odds are that taking this medicine daily will lead to one helluva fun life. A life that you can look back on when you are taking your last breathes and feel darn good about.
In other words, we should follow the advice of another song by Tim McGraw’s and “Live like we were dying!”
Here’s to TODAY! Live each “today” like it was your last…and when it is your last, you'll be HAPPY!
Don’t get nervous, Mom, and don’t get too excited for that life insurance policy just yet, wifey! I didn’t get diagnosed with any life threatening disease and wasn’t told by a doctor to “get my affairs in order.”
What happened was I had a realization that I was born with that dreaded terminal illness called LIFE! Yep, the moment we were born, each and every one of was infected with something that is bringing us a little closer to the cemetery each and every day - mortality.
Shit’s tough to hear but it is true. No one is gonna make it outta here alive. The coffin is calling. That day may come today, tomorrow or 50 years from now but this disease called life is going to do its job and plant us six feet under…someday. Eventually. Hopefully not soon, but it’s inevitable.
OK, so why are you telling me this, Dr. Jeff, other than to bum me way the heck out? Well, I would like to say I have discovered a cure but I haven't. What I can prescribe is a little dose of reality that I am trying to swallow every day as well.
Prescription 1.) To Be Taken As Needed - like when you get in a life-rut
Tell yourself that your time on this big, magical ball is limited - it will end! Like a good 12 step program, the first step is admitting we have this disease! We are going to die...but we have this special moment in time.
Prescription 2.) To Be Taken Daily
This daily dose is actually the hardest to swallow. Live YOUR Life! Go out there and take a chance, risk looking stupid, be afraid, f*ck up. Who cares? It’s not gonna kill you…but even if it does, that is going to happen anyway!
But the odds are that taking this medicine daily will lead to one helluva fun life. A life that you can look back on when you are taking your last breathes and feel darn good about.
In other words, we should follow the advice of another song by Tim McGraw’s and “Live like we were dying!”
Here’s to TODAY! Live each “today” like it was your last…and when it is your last, you'll be HAPPY!