Sunday Newscape Magazine

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.~ Annie Dillard

As much as my past year has been harrowing, fearful, uncertain, sometimes depressing, often exhilarating.... I wouldn’t have had it any other way! Just as a junkie deadens his emotions and mind to what's going on in his life, many of us (too many of us) settle for a dribble of life flow when a gusher is just waiting for us.

You may not even really know that you're asleep. It's so easy to just live one day after the next absorbed in the minutia of inconsequential things. We get hypnotized, we get bored, we get dead...figuratively at first - and then literally!

Sure, life can be incredibly scary...so? Nothing is out there waiting to get you! I promise...well, actually something is out there waiting to get you. It's called life! 

Open up those emotional faucets. Let yourself feel  again. Remember how good it used to feel to be excited by your days? Remember when you didn’t know it all, and life could surprise you? Remember what it was like to dream of being king, of traveling the world, of having a huge mouthful of life? I know you do! You're sitting there reading these words right now and your heart is beginning to race. IT remembers what it was like! And it longs to experience that again, not this numbing nothing that you know is killing your passion.

Do something today, right now! Make a call, make a plan, and make a choice. The clock is ticking, how much time do you have left?

Assume you're going to live to be 100...I know I will. Based upon your age now, how many days do you have left?

I know, I'm not a math whiz either, but take the number of years you have left and multiply it by 365.

Six months ago I turned 57. So 57 x 365 = 20805 days. That may seem like a lot...but, let me ask you this: what did you do today that was life enhancing? How about yesterday? What about tomorrow?

These remaining 15,695 days of my life are racing by and I know that each one of them is a precious irreplaceable opportunity to live, to love, to laugh.

I imagine the day of my death...having my creator ask me, "What did you do with your life that was remarkable?" I want to have a list! Not an excuse. What about you?

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