Love Yourself Today

Why do we think we will live forever?
I know that most likely none of us actually literally say to ourselves, "I am immortal," but I think we usually act like it.

We don't live forever though.
Some of us don't even get to become old.
And some of the people I know that have become old have somehow cheated the odds, because the choices they have made should have seriously shortened their life spans by now. 

I think maybe we don't want to think about death, and our own deaths in particular, because that means we would have to be accountable for the choices we are making and whether we are attempting to delay death, or are hastening it closer.

I don't know about you, but I don't want to die because of dumb choices I've made or might make.  So I guess I had better stop making dumb choices and start making smart ones.

Today I learned that a friend of mine in Colorado lost her teenage son in a car accident.  Losing someone so quickly and unexpectedly feels like someone has punched you in the gut.  I know about that.  Will you please say a prayer for my friend and her family?

If you are making choices that might take you away sooner from your family and friends, would you take a moment to love yourself today and make a better choice?  I am telling this to myself too, because I am certainly guilty of slowing killing myself with food.  I have to ask myself if I can love myself enough to fight my food addiction.

If you're a parent or a teacher, you know that giving kids what they want isn't how you show love to them.  Showing love is giving children what they need, not what they want, and we do the happy dance when the 2 become the same thing.  So, love yourself today, and I will love myself today, by giving ourselves what we need, not what we want.

Do whatever you can to love yourself, and to allow your friends and family as much lifetime as possible to love on you as well.