Life's just too short...

Ever had a moment in your life where in a split second everything was put into perspective?

I had one of those today.

I was standing in front of my grandma’s house hanging out when a car accident happened 2 doors down at the intersection. One of the cars didn’t stop at the stop sign and ended up hitting the other car that was going straight. As I was on the phone with 911 they asked me if anyone was injured and at that moment the passenger of the totaled car got out….and she was pregnant.

I found out later that she was 8 months pregnant and that the air bags also went off in the car they were in. As this was sinking in all I could think about are all the people in my life, how things are with them right now and what our last words would have been to each other if something were to happen to me. Dramatic as it may sound I had a moment where shit just got real in my life. I realized that something bad could happen to me or someone that I love at any moment. I could be in a fatal car accident, not because of something I did wrong, but by being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

I realized that life really is too short and precious to let petty arguments affect a relationship with someone you love. That you need to tell the people you care about daily how much they mean to you…because you never know when it may be your last. You need to live your life like it’s the last day, do all the crazy things you want to do, because you never know if you will lose the opportunity to “do it tomorrow or later”.

I hope that everyone that I care about in my life know how much they mean to me. I hope they don’t ever question it. I hope I don’t ever experience a moment where I never got a chance to tell someone how much he or she truly means to me because it’s too late.

“Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put-off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.”