Life Glitch

People say that you never know how much you have until you lose it. Others say you take people for granted until they start slipping away.
All of those people are right. It's so easy to laugh at the future and just expect to see your friends again the next day. No one expects the unexpected. That's where it got its name.
It only takes one moment to change the future. One moment to wreck your perfect idea of what will be tomorrow.
Then you find out one of your best friends has a brain tumor. And all you can think about is the possibility that he might die. One day he is fine and the next he is bored sick in a hospital bed, wondering how he got there.

For those of us who have lost loved ones, we know that no one is ever the same after they see death. And all you can think about after they go is that you wish you had more time.
But it's not about the time we didn't have, it's about the memories we built and the people we loved.
I want to think that every day. Not just be thankful for all of the people I have been blessed with, but realizing that what makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever, and what makes it precious is that it ends.1
I'm not asking you to live every moment in the fear that you might lose someone. I'm asking that you savor each moment, making it last as long as possible because time is short in the light of eternity.

One moment. That's all it takes to collapse your castle in the air. All it takes for life to punch you in the gut, reminding you that we aren't immortal. So before life tries to take you by surprise, recognize each moment as a gift from the Creator. So when you get a life glitch and all you can see is the cliff before your feet, you can yell to the world with confidence, "I lived. I loved. I experienced. And I'm ready for this."


Notes
1. Gwen Stacy, "The Amazing Spider Man 2." Marc Webb.