For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -- Alfred D. Souza

After my Grandfather passed away I had found this quote on the internet. I had really liked it and saved it and haven't looked at it again in weeks. As I was going through stuff in my spring cleaning ravagings I found it again. I sat down and I read it. And I read it. It's so beautiful. I thought about how Mike and I talked about how you look at things and if things happen for a reason and life in general. Regardless of the meanings that I have attached to the events in my life, these events are MY LIFE. Bad and good, tragic and beautiful in the short time I have lived, I have LIVED. I think that if I died tomorrow I could look back on my life and say I lived the most of it that I knew how. And I have no regrets. And I thank God for everything that He has brought into my life, the obstacles, challenges, and surprises and I recognize them all as gifts.

-kln-

I hope that someday you get the chance to live like you were dying.