I Almost Died Today
Just as
We live
We
Almost
Died
Today.
Everything
We
Do
Teeters
On
Life
And
Death,
From drinking
Our
Morning
Coffee
To
Tying
Our
Own
Shoelaces.
Who knows
If you
Burn
Your
Tongue
And
Throat
Away?
What if
You trip
Down
An
Escalator
Going
The
Opposite
Direction?
I almost
Died
Today,
But
I lived
To
See
Another,
And that
Is
Something
To be thankful
For.
Treat
Each
Day
With
Your
Fullest
Energy,
Because like
A
Battery,
We too
Run
Out
Someday.
There’s
No
Calling
Triple-A
Or
Screaming
Aaaa,
When your
Lights
Dim
Down
And the
Battery
Has
Run
Out
Of
Fun.
A friend
Once
Told
Me,
“I almost
Died
Today”,
And
I took
For
Granted
How
Real
That feeling
And
Being
Can
Be.
I
Didn’t
Believe
It
Until
I was
Hanging
From
A wall,
With two
Fingers
Clinging
On
A
Rock,
And
No
Feet
Supporting
Me
Below.
How easy it
Is
To
Take for granted
A
Life
We’ve
Lived.
How easy
It is
To choose
Comfort
Over
Character
Building.
How easy
It
Is
To take
A
Leap,
And expect
Never to
Feel a scratch
From
The
Fall.
Feet
Can
Fall,
But it’s
Something
Different
When
It’s
Nothing
But
Endless
Feet
To
Fall.
We can fall into
An
Abyss
In life
Sometimes,
But it’s the
Ropes
We build
For ourselves
And the
Support
We get from
Each
Other
That keeps us
Climbing
Out
Of
Any
Hole,
Up
Any
Mountain,
Through
Any
Forest,
And we come
Out
Alive,
Scratches,
Scars,
And
All.
We may
Trip
And
Fall,
But it’s
The
Spring
In our
Step
That
Makes
Us
Adventurers
Not
Just
Wanderers.
I was
Once
Or
Twice
Living
Where
My
Hold
On
The
World
That
I was
Climbing
Was
No
Longer
A
Grip,
But
A
Situation
We
All
Face:
An
Unexpected
Drop.
Don’t
Let the
Rain
Drops
Keep
You from
Climbing
Back
Up.
Don’t let
A
Slippery
Slope
Keep you
From
Giving
It your
All
And
Making
Your
Own
Harness
To
Keep
Climbing
Despite
The
Fall.
It is vital
That you
Keep
Latching
Onto
What
Brings
One
Foot
In
Front
Of
The
Next,
Repeatedly,
Until you make
That journey:
The
Once
In
A
Lifetime
That will
Be
Retold,
Forever,
For
All
Lifetimes.
