Live Like You Were Dying

“Len, come on! We’re going to be late,” Lisa called to me, pulling a cap onto her head. I was currently trying to look more like a guy who had grown up in a respectable home, instead of living in a shelter for the last few years. “Lisa doesn’t rush me, I almost ready.” I pulled my own green cap onto my brown ponytail. I looked at my right-hand man or woman. She was dressed like I was, in a simple t-shirt and jeans. “We still look like thieves, don’t we?” I asked, trying out an innocent look in the mirror. Oh god, that was even worse. “Len, I thought we weren’t going to use that word anymore, we rob the rich to feed the poor.” She smirked. Her long hair was combed for once, instead of its normal ratty style. I grabbed my backpack, it was old and only had one strap, then I and Lisa snuck out. It was much easier than it…

The song “Live like you were dying” by Tim Mcgraw shows listeners that there is always going to be a time in life dreams need to come true and life will be like it is in fast motion. Life is always going to throw tough obstacles at you and a person only gets stronger from them. I live life to the fullest because it is only lived once. If I was living my life as I was, dying there is a bucket list I would like to complete, and family I would like to spend this time with during this time. The…

“Live Like You Were Dying” Carpe Diem, a phrase we have heard a million times, but what does this mean, and how does it represent the American dream? Carpe Diem means, “Seize the day”. This phrase embodies the American Dream, which is do whatever you can to have your best life. This is exactly what the message is in Tim McGraw’s hit song, “Live Like You Were Dying”. This song is also in the country genre which is a completely American genre. This song is reflective upon how McGraw has lived…

are human. It holds us back because of the time limit that has been placed among everyone on earth. The reality of death makes us try to live each day like it could be our last. Music has helped bring this understanding upon me in a very inspiring way. Lifetime principles and important realizations are often transferred through music such as the simple concepts of living and dying, including the deep analyzation of humbleness that takes real wisdom to apprehend. After coming to the conclusion…

The Traveler’s Wife There is a young woman by the name of Nettie Jones that has become a frequent subject of gossip in our town. She’s a pretty little thing, with silky brown hair and warm brown eyes. Her voice is sweet and melodic, and she has a soft spoken and kind demeanor. She lives a fair distance away from the rest of the town, in a little cottage in the foothills of the mountains to the north. Every morning, she comes down from her home to go about her business in the town, buying…

A note of caution: enthusiasm shouldn 't take the place of God 's Word. Has thoughtful thinking and ideas been bounced around enough to see a best option? Someone wrote: "Plan ahead, it wasn 't raining when Noah built the ark." -Anonymous. Goals are going to take a team effort and lots of work. Teamwork will most likely spring from the minister 's initiation. That being said, minister 's need to take the tough job. What is the tough job? Managers work the process, but leaders work people.…

“Screw you, Abellona!” My mama shouted, scolding her with an anger so primal, so intense, that I had never seen anything like it ever come out of her before. It had frightened me and yet made me proud. I looked down at my mama’s feet where Midnight now stood, her back arched, fangs drawn and letting out a seething rear aimed squarely at Abellona. Not far from her was another cat as equally angered and ready for a rumble. Off to my right, Tucker and Owen still struggled with subduing…

who tells you he prefers to obey God than to obey men, and who is consequently sure of entering the gates of Heaven by slitting your throat?” Dr Richard Reilly Wrote an essay published in Philosophy Now, in which he discusses how he approaches the topic of “Questioning God” with his students. Reilly begins with the above quote from Voltaire—not in the published version, only in the copy given to his students—where he captures his main idea in one simple statement. If a man is truly loyal to…

too might think in terms of the effect on their troupe. Then he solved the problem: he’d discuss it with Catalina! She’d tell him frankly what she thought. He’d talk to her that night. *** Catalina sat on Antonio’s bed with her eyes wide open as she listened, occasionally putting her hand through her red hair. ‘So you’d be a spy, Antonio. And you’d be away from Madrid. You’d be spying and reporting back to the regidor what you’d discovered.…

a nursing student. D.M.: `` how do you know my name, are you Mary? You look like someone I know.’’ Me: ``sometimes I can image people names just by looking at their face.’’ D.W. so are you a psychic? Me: `` kind of.’’ Me: ``So can I ask you how long you have been here?’’ D.M.: ``I’ve been here for two months and half.’’ Me: ``How did you come to be in here?’’ D.W: `` I was feeling like I couldn’t deal with my life, I just found that my child was switched at birth, and that someone stole my…