life is short.

I hate coming back just for a sad post, but today is a sad day. I came home after school and one of my friends from college facebooked me and asked, did you hear about Becca? Now I don't know about you, but whenever I hear a question like that you can assume that it wasn't good. Well...it wasn't.

Becca was killed in a car accident this morning. Nobody expected it, her facebook statues from a couple hours earlier talked about how tired she was but how much she loved her job and that it made it worth going to work. It breaks my heart.

More than anything I hurt for her family and her friends. She was so young, just graduated from college and so excited for her new job. I know that she had great plans for her life and now it was all cut short. I can't imagine the pain that they are going through but I know they need all of the prayers they can get.

It makes me think about my life. I'm only 23. I'm looking forward to getting engaged, married, getting my masters, having children, and accomplishing things in my career. We make all of these plans but we never know the ultimate plan, how long we will be on these earth. If today was my last day, did I live it happily? Today the answer would probably be no. I struggled with kids being on task, I was stressed about school, I was upset at my boyfriend for not texting me back...all of this while a mother was crying for her daughter, a best friend was grieving for her partner in crime. This is a terrible wake up call, but that is exactly what it is. I need to chose to be thankful. I used to be good at it and then school and stress got in the way. There is so much to be thankful for each and every day, look for it, thank God for it.

What he left behind.

This video, What he left behind, has gone viral on facebook and I decided that I had to watch it and see what all the hype was about. 22 minutes later, I was in tears. This is the video of a teenager, Zach, who is terminally ill. It follows him and his journey towards the end. He is always upbeat, positive, and constantly showing love to everyone who is around him.

One of the messages that this menu leaves you with is that his goal was to always strive to make people happy. If you spend your days worrying about how to make other people happy, how to make them have a better day, then you will have a better life. I think that is such an inspiring message. This is a teenager who knows that his life is coming to a close but instead of worrying about himself and making himself happy, he is using his energy to make other people happy. I think that this is how we should all try to live. We might be having a bad day but that doesn't mean that we should inflict that on the people around us, why not try to make sure that other people have good days even if ours aren't perfect? Chances are that by trying to help someone else have a good day, our day will improve.

This video left me wondering about a lot of things, most importantly, how would I live if I knew I was going to die? I hope that I would live a life much like Zach. A life surrounded by loved ones, filled with happiness, and with the piece of mind that everyone knows how much I love them. I wouldn't want my friends and family members to be upset when I leave, but to know that I am in a better place and that I would want them to be happy.

He passed away yesterday, rest in peace, Zach.