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There Is No Tomorrow

Have you put yourself in the shoes of someone who is dying? Someone who has been diagnosed with a terminal disease, and whom nobody knows if they will hold on to life for one more day? His/her family wake up every morning with the hope that this person is still alive. Death: it comes sooner for some, but eventually it will come for everybody. The question is not when it will come to you, but rather what you are going to do with the time you have now.

We live in a world full of entertainment. Our lives seem to be compressed in a small device that we usually put in our pockets, and everything that surrounds us we barely notice because our minds are being absorbed by social media and technology. I remember that in my first day of evangelism class with Dr. Wheeler at Liberty University, as we were entering the classroom, we would sit somewhere and we would pull out our cell phones right away. Our cell phones were an excuse to not talk to the person next to us, until Dr. Wheeler (who is an awesome professor, by the way!) would tell us to leave our phones in our backpacks and to walk around the classroom and just talk to people before the class would start. By doing so, we not only broke that structure of comfort we had, but also we found more satisfaction in meeting people than being on our phones. I got to talk to and meet awesome people that later became friends.

We are humans beings controlled by screens and notifications. We text while we walk, we are on Facebook while we eat, we watch Snapchat stories while we hang out with friends, we are on Instagram during class, etc. We know the feeling of watching our phone die and feeling like our life is gone forever. THIS IS RIDICULOUS! If we only would take life seriously, everything would be so different! We are becoming more selfish each day because we won’t lift up our eyes from ourselves and turn them to others. Today, everything is designed for us to be more self-centered each day.

“Live like there’s no tomorrow” — a phrase that unfortunately has been so often used by people who don’t really know what they are saying. Consequently, it doesn’t have the effect in our minds that it should have. Don’t live like there’s no tomorrow. Live today, because there is no tomorrow. Who are we to say that everything is going to be the same by tomorrow? There is the possibility that things can be the same by tomorrow, but there is also a chance that everything can change. So what are you going to do with today? What are you going to do with the moment you have now? Would you finally pay attention to that kid you always ignore because you’re on Facebook? Would you say “I love you” to the person you vowed to love? On what would you spend your money? On what are you going to invest your time?

Live this moment. Give everything you've got every day. Love selflessly. Smile incessantly. You don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow or in the next minute, so don’t take any second for granted. Appreciate the little things, which are always there, everywhere you look. There is no tomorrow for doing the things that really matter today.

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