If Today was Your Last Day

My sister recently bought the new Nickleback CD and I really like one of the songs on it, If Today was Your Last Day. This song is basically saying live each day like it is your last. I found it very interesting because it starts out with the line, ‘my best friend gave me the best advice he said each day’s a gift and not a given right’ and that statement is so true. I believe we need to live each day to its fullest and enjoy life. It then goes on to ask questions like, would you forget old pictures, donate money, could you say goodbye, and others like that. It makes you think, if today was your last what would you do? If it was my last day I’m not sure what I would do, but I think I would try to fix everything that I could and spend lots of time with the people I love. Two really good questions that are mentioned in the song are, would you take the path less traveled and would you forgive your enemies? To me those questions are ones that need to be considered because would you? I know I would like to say yes but I do not know for sure what I’m going to do later in a day. This song gives lots of incentive to think about death and how you would react if you knew your today was your last. Another question that comes up when I think about this kind of stuff is ‘why is it when someone knows when they are going to die they want to live more?’ Why is that? Is the reality that you only have so long to do all the things you have never done or is it something else? So many questions and no one really has an answer because it is different for everybody. I only hope that if I ever know that the day I’m living is my last that I make everything good and enjoy the gift that has been given to me, the gift of life.