Live

You only live once.

Today you are alive,

So live today.

Don't miss it.

Don't miss today.

This moment is yours,

Designed for you.

You are the ONLY ONE who can experience HERE, NOW, as YOU!

This moment will only happen once in all this vast universe.

...

You can't save time -

You have to spend it,

But you don't have to waste it.

When you were conceived, God gave you a bank account.

He generously packed it with an unknown number of seconds.

God automatically withdraws 86,400 seconds for you every single day and gives them to you!

He gives them to you!

You can't stuff them back into your account.

If you don't use them, they disappear.

Forever.

So for the love of life, spend every single one.

And don't waste a single one on something that's not important.

Don't waste a single one.

Spend every last one of that 86,400 wisely, on something that truly matters in the long run.

...

Don't neglect to live as you strive to survive.

Don't "get through" a day, a week, a semester, a year, a season of life.

And don't treat any moment like you don't want it.

If you wish any span of time would pass faster, you're making a mistake.

....

You can't lose time, because you can't find time.

Once gone, time ceases to exist.

I think we humans have trouble with this concept,

Because nothing else we encounter ceases to exist.

Ever.

Matter cannot be created nor destroyed.

Maybe that's why we think some things will always be there.

But time is not material.

...

History is happening NOW!

THIS MOMENT is UNIQUE!

Seven billion people are experiencing this moment, but only YOU are seeing it through your unique irises, hearing it through your ears, inhaling it into your lungs, sensing it with your neurons, experiencing it in the context of you.

Not only is this sixty second block unique to the time continuum...

It's unique to you of all people, too. :-)

This, here, now, in you, will never happen again.

So while it's here, dwell in it.

If you don't like this sixty second chunk of the universe, at least appreciate the fact that seven billion other people are seeing it through their eyes, hearing it in their language, inhaling it together, with trillions of neurons firing a second, and experiencing it in their context. This world is huge.

...

Life is a gift!

You won't have it forever.

You only have a set number of seconds left on this earth.

It is your responsibility to God and mankind to use them for the most good as possible.

So go ahead.

Stop.

Sense. Hear. See.

Experience.

Be.

This is living now.

 

 

 

This poem is about: 
Our world

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