Live like you’re dying…

It was just a few days before my 30th birthday, June 9th to be exact. The morning started out as it always does, until I saw it. It!. It seems so surreal even now, months later. As I read the blog, I sobbed. I mean I cried as though the news was about me. The news… He has brain cancer. He would be David Wenzel.

Recently, I spoke about the awesome photographer, Jasmine Star,and how I felt I knew her, because her blog was so open into her life and her work, well the same goes for Amy Wenzel. David would be her husband. While away on business, and having some fun with friends, David accidentally hit his head. Minutes later, he couldn’t think straight, had a hard time speaking, and the following day, had a seizure. He was rushed to the hospital, and instead of doctors finding a brain bleed as they expected, they found a tumor. If interested in reading his journey through fighting this cancer in his way, and about his faith through it all… Go here, the story begins.

Now here we are, November 17. I brought up all of that to say this. Often times we talk about the things we want to do in life, but unfortunately most never manifest into action over talk. Why is that? Why are we more focused on talking about what we want to do, than doing it? I have this vision board that was created almost two years ago, a lot of things have come to pass but so many more are still waiting on me. Waiting on me, I said. We are our own hold up in life, most of the time.

This morning as I was preparing my workspace to edit, Regis & Kelly was on the television, and the winner from the latest cycle of American Idol was the guest. He performed his single “Live like you’re dying”. The lyrics are powerful, if you get a chance, listen to it. The hook said :

We only got 86400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say…
Gotta live like we’re dying.

I’m not sure why this affected me in such a way, but I had a WOW moment. I want to live like I’m dying, to dance like no one is watching, and to love as though I couldn’t breathe without it. It’s time to stop chasing dreams, but to catch them, and put in a jar one by one. If you knew you were dying… What would you do? What could you do? Do something amazing every day that takes you a little closer to those dreams that you’re afraid to put on paper or out in the world! Inspire and motivate yourself, only you can! Live like you’re dying…