...absurd in every possible way. It blows my mind to look back and see what sort of person I was in high school. Many of the good things were there but they were most definitely under a heap of teenage angst which certainly greatly affected my high school years. When I hear adults talk about high school being the best years of their lives I shudder at the thought that anyone could consider high school to be the best years of their life. I had a terrific time in high school regularly, even when things were a mess there was more joy than I was willing to admit at the time. Best time of my life? Thank God it wasn't.
Every day that I live and grow a bit as a human being is a better day than all of high school put together. If I wasn't progressing as a human being, trying to constantly better myself (and making mistakes along the way), what would be the point of going on. There's a push these days to share sentiments about how life isn't about the past or the future, it's about the now and nothing could be more correct and powerful. The second we stop looking towards the future as if it is something better than the present, the moment we look at the now as the best moment of our lives, only then will we really be living.
Tim McGraw had a huge song a few years back, "Live Like You Were Dying". I love the song and I loathe the song. I get it, everyone should live like it was their last day. I loathe how folks choose to interpret it; live as if tomorrow doesn't matter. What it means to me is that today is all that matters so if today was your last day were you as helpful and kind as you could have been, as forgiving and forgetting, as compassionate and caring.
Well, were you?
