Out-Numbered

Happy Birthday my brother. It's funny. I haven't really thought about it until now but your birthday is one of nine birthdays I have always remembered. Birthdays are like phone numbers. We don't need to remember phone numbers anymore. You plug em' into your contacts and you press a button when you need it. It's bullshit. To this day I remember exactly seven phone numbers. Five of them don't exist anymore and one of them is my mom's, which used to be mine. So I'm not sure that even counts. It's kind of a shame it doesn't work that way anymore. I think the love a person has for their friends and family can be measured in phone numbers and birthdays. I'm not taking about Facebook reminders and speed dial. I'm talking about knowing them by heart. If you knew someone's phone number by heart back then, it meant you needed  them. It meant you kept them close. It meant you talked with them. If you knew someone'...

"Live every day as if it were your last." How many times have we heard those words? How many times have we said those words to someone but yet failed to heed our own advice? Have you ever stopped for a moment to think about what it means to live every day as if it were your last? It's actually quite daunting. I would never want to think for a second that today could be my last day on this earth, with my wife, my kids. That is a lot of pressure. Pressure to do all of the things in a day that might have otherwise taken a lifetime to achieve. It doesn't seem feasible. Does it mean that I need to set sail on that long overdue Nickelodeon cruise? Should I reconsider sky diving? Must I swim with the dolphins? Is that what it means? I hope not. What if you took the same quote and changed it just a little bit? "Live every day as if you were going to live forever ." It changes everything. What I've come to reali...