Life is Like a Card Game…

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May 3, 2013 by little hurdles big race

I don’t want to be cliché but life is short.  Ok, yes we all know that…but do you really know what I mean.  Everyday we go about our lives and never think for one second that someone you know can be taken from you in an instant.  Sometimes life walks right up to you and smacks you in the face.  “HELLO!”,  “APPRECIATE ME” your life is screaming at you!

Last night life walked right up to me and did just that – smacked me in the face.  I was at the gym and got a text that I had to read three times before it registered…a friend had passed away.  Killed in a hunting accident.  I do not want to get into a gun debate & I don’t want to get into a religious debate.

Senseless, accidental, waste, sadness, those are the things I was thinking…

Then I thought about life like a card game.  Remember playing war as a kid?  It’s the game where you split up 52 cards between two people and turn over one card at a time.  Whoever has the higher card wins.  It can go on for hours and it requires no skill whatsoever.  This is like life – a game of chance with Death.  Yes, of course, eventually in this game Death is going to win.  But, here is the thing – cherish every hand you have to play and stop giving your cards away.  Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose -but stop giving up and giving in.

I went to see Jillian Michaels the other day and she was talking about how expensive it was to diet, how expensive it was to join a gym, and how expensive it was to lose weight in general.  But, how expensive is cancer?  How expensive is diabetes? How much would I have to pay you to never see your loved ones again?  It can’t be worth it, right?  I know my friend would have given up everything for one more day with his sons.  His death was tragic and accidental.  Don’t make your death one that you could have avoided because of your lifestyle choice.

Stop living like your life doesn’t matter – you do matter and I believe in you.