Live each day as if it were your last. <br />Someday it will be true. <br />Ask yourself in the mirror <br />If you should do what you're going to do. <br /> <br />Many things that you have done before, <br />And have addicted you some way, <br />Would you want to be caught doing them <br />If an angel walked by your way? <br /> <br />I struggle with things I do today, <br />That I struggled with as a boy. <br />But giving them up seems impossible, <br />For I find comfort in them too, not joy. <br /> <br />Being familiar with unseemly things <br />Is a habit that I would break. <br />If only my faith was stronger, <br />I'd leave them behind, not take. <br /> <br />But I am just a mortal man. <br />And as such I sure am weak. <br />I need some strength and guidance. <br />Now I know Whom I should seek. <br /> <br />They who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40: 31 <br /> <br />When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? ' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. <br />—Steve Jobs, Address at Stanford University (2005)<br /><br />Robert Edgar Burns<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/live-each-day-3/
