How do you live your life? Do you play it safe? Do you take each moment as they come? Do you live like you were dying?

This thought has been with me a lot lately and I don’t know why? I have been asking myself more and more, am I living in the moment of now and living like I were dying tomorrow? Enjoying today? Enjoying the moments with the boys? Enjoying what time I have here on this earth? Or am I playing it safe?

Take a moment and watch the Tim McGraw video: Live Like You Were Dying

As I played with my sons last night, one of them walked over and put his head on my knee. I was responding to an email and it hit me. I was taking time away from my sons, again, to respond to an email. I have tried to work on this and focus on the now, focus on playing with the boys when I get home. And even though I’ve done better, I caught myself not doing enough. I am not beating myself up here, I am human and do have to support my family. But the reality is, I am not Living like I were dying. I am playing it too safe.

This weekend, more fun things with the boys. Going out to the park, assuming that it isn’t snowing or below freezing. Tonight, play with each of them until they can’t keep their little eyes open. And tomorrow, hope that I get the chance again to do it all over.

Read the lyrics and it will make perfect sense:

He said: “I was in my early forties,
“With a lot of life before me,
“An’ a moment came that stopped me on a dime.
“I spent most of the next days,
“Looking at the x-rays,
“An’ talking ’bout the options an’ talkin’ ‘bout sweet time.”
I asked him when it sank in,
That this might really be the real end?
How’s it hit you when you get that kind of news?
Man whatcha do?

An’ he said: “I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
“I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
“And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
“And I gave forgiveness I’d been denying.”
An’ he said: “Some day, I hope you get the chance,
“To live like you were dyin’.”

He said “I was finally the husband,
“That most the time I wasn’t.
“An’ I became a friend a friend would like to have.
“And all of a sudden goin’ fishin’,
“Wasn’t such an imposition,
“And I went three times that year I lost my Dad.
“Well, I finally read the Good Book,
“And I took a good long hard look,
“At what I’d do if I could do it all again,
“And then:

“I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
“I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
“And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
“And I gave forgiveness I’d been denying.”
An’ he said: “Some day, I hope you get the chance,
“To live like you were dyin’.”

Like tomorrow was a gift,
And you got eternity,
To think about what you’d do with it.
An’ what did you do with it?
An’ what can I do with it?
An’ what would I do with it?

“Sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
“I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
“And then I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
“And I watched Blue Eagle as it was flyin’.”
An’ he said: “Some day, I hope you get the chance,
“To live like you were dyin’.”

“To live like you were dyin’.”
“To live like you were dyin’.”
“To live like you were dyin’.”
“To live like you were dyin’.”

Lyrics from Cowboy Lyrics