Live Like You Were Dying

One of my all time favourites by the husband of Faith Hill who sang my "White Knight" song, "This Kiss". Tim McGraw and Faith hill has always given me the impression that they were simple country people making great music and this song can't be more meaningful. The full song can be accessed by this link. They refused the embedding request hence the above "LIVE" clip. The 2007 show, "The Bucket List" is one that I haven't got a chance to catch so if you happen to have the DVD, please send it this way, I promise to return it! This is a great song and if you pay some attention to the lyrics, you'll know what I mean.

He said I was in my early forties, with a lot of life before me
And one moment came that stopped me on a dime
I spent most of the next days, looking at the x-rays
Talking bout' the options and talking bout' sweet times.
I asked him when it sank in, that this might really be the real end
How's it hit 'cha when you get that kind of news?
Man what did ya do?
He said

I went skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'

He said I was finally the husband, that most the time I wasn't
And I became a friend, a friend would like to have
And all of a sudden goin' fishin, wasn't such an imposition
And I went three times that year I lost my dad
Well I finally read the good book, and I took a good long hard look
At what I'd do if I could do it all again

Like tomorrow was the end
And ya got eternity to think about what to do with it
What should you do with it
What can I do with it
What would I do with it

Skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And man I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I watched an eagle as it was flyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'


There's just so much to life that we need to grasp. We don't have that much time to be upset or indecisive. Do we really take it for granted that we're all going to live a ripe old age and hopefully by then, things fall into place nicely. There are just things in life you'll lose it if you don't grab it. Once you have let it go, you won't pick it up again and your life will eventually be laden with regrets. But as human beings, we never quite learn and we do it again. If only we are kids once again and learn how it is like to fall and not kick the same brick again.

If we have the courage to put down everything and do what we've always wanted to do so we'll die with no regrets, will we lead a more fulfilled life? Or does it take a death sentence to bring us to realisation that life is that fragile afterall?

Do you have a bucket list? Please don't pass me "The 1000 places to visit before you die" because unless you have that bank account to support your craziness, crap doesn't quite qualify to be in your bucket list. Maybe some things on the wish list aren't as simple to fulfil. Maybe some can't be bought with money. But as the song goes, you can try to love deeper and speak sweeter. The happiness that you bring on to others may just be unmeasurable.