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If Today Were Your Last Day

"Because the hands of time are never on your side."

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If Today Were Your Last Day
Lauren Bailly

Our entire lives, we are raised to believe that each and every individual on this planet is a person unique all on their own. We are all so different in who we choose to be and how we choose to live our lives.

What all too many forget is the one thing that unites each and every person on this planet regardless of color, religion, gender and background: death. Now yes, it may sound morbid, but when you choose to step back and change the perspective of the word, it is not all so horrible.

When each of us unique and different individuals think about our lives and how eventually they will come to and end, it causes a kind of in-depth reflection of ourselves. What have we done so far? What accomplishments will we be remembered for? What will people think of when they hear my name after I've passed?

So maybe this is a morbid mantra, but I'm sure it is not one you haven't heard before, and one that could not hurt to hear again. If today was your last day on this earth, what would you do?

Would you take to the Nickleback song and "forgive your enemies" because in the long run, what good is a life full of hatred, anyway?

Or would you take to the Lee Brice song and "be a best friend, tell the truth and overuse I love you," because we all know we fail to do those things sometimes.

Regardless of age, what everyone on this earth can agree on is that life can be taken in the blink of an eye. Each day is not a given right, and if you wake up one day knowing it is your last, would it be too late to do and change all the things you should have been doing all along?

So go against the grain, realize that change is hard, but taking that step towards change is the hardest part. Realize that you do not have forever to be the person you aspire to be, you may have decades, years, or you may have days.

Of course everyone has an off day. Everyone gets angry, hurt and depressed. These are not negative ways of life, they are just emotions. What makes them a negative way of life is when you spend the time you will never get back being angry, hurt, and bitter at the world.

So take your bad days and deal with them. Trudge through them as best as you can and realize what you have been told all along, that the past is the past and there is nothing you can do to change it. So, tomorrow morning when you wake up, realize that yesterday is now a part of the past, a part of your life you can never change. And if you are not happy with how that day reflects on you as a person, then fix it. Don't try to fix others, do not focus on them, focus on you, your emotions, your actions, and more importantly, your responses to other people's actions. Understand that success in life does not come to you, you go to it. So wake up, choose what kind of a last day you want to live, because no one truly knows what day will be their last.

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