I promised my team, this was surely going to be the next post.
"If today was your last day" - Nickelback
Just like any other band, I thought this was just another song, either adventure or romantic. To my surprise, its really interesting. This all started when my awesome english teacher gave us this song to relate to a literature piece, "The Lotus Eater" found in my syllabus.
At first, everyone was like, what song is this? At that point we haven't heard the tune of it, and there were a lot of people like me, who don't recognize titles but recognizes the song. So as teacher played it, we were still blur, trying to follow it, until it reached the chorus. It was so melodious to hear everyone say "OHHHHHH, THAT SONG!" until now, only then we knew what song it was.
Well, it basically was about If Today Was Your Last Day, what are you going to do? The song was saying that there's no more second tries, remembering the past, give all you have away and basically, its like asking yourself, have you done good in the past? Or are you going to look back and sigh? Because if today was your last day, would you change and take the road less traveled by?
The song itself was just fair, but the question itself was good. Few years back, my pastor ask a group of us, If you know that tomorrow you are going to die, What would you do now? We thought, and said things like play non-stop, call friends, cry, ask God for forgiveness and so on. But at the end of it, we asked him, so what would you do? And his answer blew me away, I still remember the voice in which he said it, the smile on his face, and the challenge he posted to us. He said something very simple, "I will live that one last day, like any other normal day"
Now, you would be thinking, WHAT THE!! LAST DAY WOR!! LIVE LIKE A NORMAL DAY? WHY WHY?? But its true, because if we really knew we had one last day left, we would think of the past and see whether whatever we did was worth it. And for Christians, we would ask ourselves, have we glorified God? But the fact that we live our last day like a normal day, means that our "good deeds" has to become a lifestyle. Imagine, a lifestyle, to do good to others, and follow God's path. It has to become a LIFESTYLE. Isn't that amazing? I was blown away, and that one night itself, change a lot of my being, to focus on every detail of my life as much as i can.
So the same challenge to you all now, What if today was your last day?
Love,
Wai Leem
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