Live Like you were Dying

So, I finished the e-mail, got in my car, and the song that was playing, right at the start, was Live Like you were Dying by Tim McGraw.

At first I took it as a message -- like, uh oh, am I truly dying? Is this the beginning of that?

Then I remembered what we talked about last night, where at first, I was doing all the things and working toward being all the things that I really wanted to do and be, but then I returned to my "old life and old self" and that was bothering me. Thinking about this, I decided to interpret my hearing that song from a slightly different angle, to get a different message, that this can be viewed as a gift (sort of like what Kerry was talking about) and this song was a reminder to do that.

For anyone who doesn't know the song (it is a country song), the lyrics are below. The really funny part is that I identified with the lyrics in at the start of the song ("I was in my early forties") and now realized that perhaps, I only think that I am in my early 40s!

Off to acupuncture.

Love, Me


He said I was in my early forties
with a lot of life before me
when a moment came that stopped me on a dime
and I spent most of the next days
looking at the x-rays
Talking bout the options
and talking bout sweet time
I asked him when it sank in
that this might really be the real end
hows it hit you when you get that kinda news
man whatd you do

and he said
I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fumanchu
and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I gave forgiveness Id been denying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.

He said I was finally the husband
that most the time I wasnt
and I became a friend a friend would like to have
and all the sudden going fishin
wasnt such an imposition
and I went three times that year I lost my dad
well I finally read the good book
and I took a good long hard look
at what Id do if I could do it all again

and then
I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fumanchu
and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I gave forgiveness Id been denying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.

Like tomorrow was a gift and you got eternity to think about
whatd you do with it what did you do with it
what did I do with it
what would I do with it?

Sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fumanchu
and then I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I watched an eagle as it was flying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying