THE "MACK TRUCK" PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE

Ever notice how the older you get the faster time seems to fly? Remember when you were a child and everything used to take forever? When I was a child we had family friends that lived in Petosky Michigan. It was a 4 hour drive from where we lived and it seemed to take forever to get there. Now a 4 hour drive is nothing. The school year was enormously long and Holiday vacations took forever to arrive. Now, the years go by with astounding speed and I can hardly keep up with the days of the week let alone the months.

All this to say that LIFE IS SO VERY SHORT!!!! I have lost all my grandparents most of my Aunts and Uncles and my father. I have lost friends who were younger than me. You never know when you get up in the morning what is going to happen that day. We don't spend much time thinking about it, I guess if we did we would get to depressed and just stay in bed. There is no promise of tomorrow and you can't go back and relive yesterday no matter how badly you may want. There is only TODAY, RIGHT NOW!! We must live each moment as if it could be our last because it very well could be. Be alive!! Be in the moment, present, aware of what is around you, in other words WAKE UP!

You may ask, "what's that got to do with a Mack truck"? Well let me tell you. Whenever I leave the presence of those I love, ie.... family, brothers, mother, WIFE or just end a phone conversation, I tell them that I love them! The reason is, if I were to get hit by a "Mack truck" I want them to know that the last thing I said to them was that I loved them. Of course the "Mack truck" can be anything that ends your life here on this earth.

I know for a fact that to many people and families do not tell one another enough that they love them. I hope that in light of the fact that life is short for all of us and you never know when your "Mack truck" will arrive, you will make it a habit to practice the "Mack truck" philosophy of life. Let those you love KNOW that you love them!

WAKE UP!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!