During my senior year in high school I took a class called, "Living and Dying." The course was taught by a terrific teacher and an influential mentor. "I'm going to die young," he began the class by saying. "I know it." Only he didn't say it in some morbid or ominous way. He was trying to get our 17-year old minds to understand our time on earth is finite. We all hope to live for many, many years but the trick is to live like we're not guaranteed tomorrow.
Yesterday, as I sat in a coffee shop shortly before meeting a good friend, I overheard a couple of friends who'd run into one another. "How you doing?" one asked. "Hey, one day closer to Friday."
Coincidentally, that was another one of the lessons I took away from my "Living and Dying" class. "Don't jus try to get through the week," our teacher told us. "Those days you're trying to speed through are all part of your life."
When we live with greater intentionality and an understanding that someday we'll miss the very moments we were trying to blow past, we'll grow to appreciate that life is simply all those little moments added up.
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