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<p>You feel tired, or lazy, like another hour in bed would be nice, like getting in gear would be more effort than would be comfortable right now.</p>
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<p>Don’t waste your life. Live desperately, as if time were limited … because it is. Live urgently. As if each moment counted – because it does. As if this day could be your last – because it could.</p>
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<p>Your last opportunity to see the sun’s reflection off a myriad little wonders placed before you.</p>
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<p>As if time is running out – because it is. That limited quantity of days, hours, minutes is not unlimited.</p>
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<p>Yet there is so much of life to fit into them. Softball games with children – yours or ones you know. Dinners with friends or colleagues. Interesting places at a travel’s reach (a plane flight, train trip or days drive). There lie ahead the explorations of an amazing world, still to be made.</p>
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<p>And there is tenderness to be found in the hugs of a child, the touch of a lover, the knowing smile of an octogenarian. All to be packed into the day, into&nbsp;this&nbsp;day.</p>
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<p>Whether the headlights catch you off guard, or the diagnosis seems unbelievable, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that one lives a full, jam-packed life, right up until our point of departure. A decade or a day, we do not know that fateful accounting. Yet we do know it has a limit. All we can do – the best we can do – is to live desperately, grabbing each minute of opportunity not yet past, savoring each drop of richness within our temporal and physical reach.</p>
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<p>Sleep tempts. Stress presses. Pressures overwhelm. Knowing we have one chance at each day trumps those relentless forces. Don’t let the moment slip past unspent, unappreciated. Live fully. Love urgently.</p>
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<p>Live desperately.</p>
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