In The End
Someone told me recently that they lost a friend who was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 4, and died a few days ago at the age of 12. There are few things that slap you in the face harder than death. It causes you to question a lot of things about life. I think that those questions are important and often overlooked.
Look, I know you are stressed about school or work or awkward friendships or a dysfunctional family or that habit that you can’t get away from or all of the other little day-to-day problems that fill your life. But sometimes you just have to drop the problems and bask in the feeling of one simple question. In the end, what truly matters? Man I love that question. I even wrote a song about it (I’ll let you guess the title). The question digs deep into your heart like a shovel and plants itself there, I like the feeling it gives me. My palms sweat a little and my stomach sinks and I think to myself, what am I stressing about and what am I living for?
I don’t want to answer that question for you. I don’t want to tell you what to think or what to believe. But I’m sure that that boy who was diagnosed with cancer before he even knew what cancer was could have told you what life should be about. Don’t continue to keep yourself too busy to ask yourself about what truly matters in your life. It is one of those questions in which the answer is truly worth living for. Don’t wait.
