I Think You Should Start Today

I think we are all guilty of it.  Waiting.  
Waiting for whatever it is we think is supposed to happen before we can start living the life we want, the life we think we should be living.
I feel like I talk about this a lot, but again this week I have been forced to take another look at  life and how completely fragile it can be.
Another plane crash, 150 lives ended.  It seems to happen so often that sometimes I wonder if we really think about it anymore.  Sure, we are sorry for the victims and their families, but do we ever really stop and put ourselves in that situation. Maybe I think about it more than most, I don't know, but after hearing the news, I thought about those people on the plane, those families left behind.  Much like the people who died in 9/11.  I think about how those people got up in the morning, brushed their teeth, drank their coffee, ironed their clothes, said goodbye to their families and went on their way like it was any other normal day.  That is where I find some of the most sadness.  Unsuspecting.  Taken.
A friend of mine lost his beautiful wife this week at the age of 48, sudden, shocking, sad.
But in all this sadness, there are lessons.  
Lessons on living.
When I flew for work, I had a ritual, which I still do whenever I fly. When I sat down on the plane and buckled my seatbelt, I would close my eyes and say a quick prayer for safe travels and then I would ask myself a question.  "Am I happy?"  Many times I wasn't happy to be on another plane to another place, but in my life  I was happy knowing that if I never saw any of my loved ones again, that they knew I loved them and that I felt like I was living the best life I could live.  It's the question you should ask yourself, but more importantly, you should answer....truthfully.
I know a lot of people who are waiting.  Waiting to make more money, waiting for vacation, waiting for Friday, waiting until they have a better job, waiting for the right person in their life, waiting, waiting and more waiting.   If they all keep waiting, they will have waited their life away...it passes so quickly, there is NO TIME TO WAIT.   Live the life you are proud of, that you enjoy.  Tell people what they mean to you. Give of yourself.  Take vacations.  Go out to dinner.   Use the good china.  Grow a garden.  Call someone and tell them how special they are.  Put down your phone and be in the moment with the people around you. Say YES. Stop waiting. START LIVING before it's too late. There is no better day than today. So get started.
God Bless
xo
Greg