The only guaranteed things in life are death and taxes!

Just so you know, I won't be talking about taxes in this post. I've been thinking about death today for a couple of reasons.

First, I was browsing mydeathspace. If you haven't heard of it, it's a website that lists people with myspace that have died, and the cause. Many of the people are my age or younger and it just goes to show how quickly you can leave this world at any time. I found it sad, this time, because all their friends and family were leaving them messages telling them they love them and how much they miss them.

Second, I read a blog by a 93 year old man, named Donald Crowdis, entitled It Bothers Me I Have To Go. It really made me think about time I've already wasted and focusing on seizing every moment I have remaining.

Finally, this evening I'm talking to my mom and I tell her about his blog. She then tells me that she had a thought she's never had before just the other day. It was raining when she woke up and she thought, "I wonder how many more times I'm going to get to hear the rain?". Mind you she just turned fifty in October but her thought is very poignant, I think.

Life, definitely, is what we make it. It can be taken from us in an instance no matter who we are, how old we are, or who we "know". Today reaffirmed what I already know about myself. I want to do something important with my life to help people.

I also want to to be true to myself and the people around me. I want to love someone with all my heart, again, and I want them to love me the same way.

I leave you with this...

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~ Aristotle