A Poster made by me hung alongside my bed when I was a teenager.....I wasn't a Black Sabbath fan so Much and I am not even sure where I found the words in their song but here they are...
Just remember love is life
And hate is living death
Treat your life for what its worth
And live for every breath
Looking back I've lived and learned
But now I'm wondering
Here I wait and only guess
What this next life will bring
The words must have meant something to the 16 year old girl I was at the time...
and as I age the meaning becomes clearer and clearer........
Today I found myself thinking the words and examining the meaning...
what did it mean to me then????? why was it important enough for me to create a large poster that I would read every night before bed....words that I would carry with me through life....
Obviously I was thinking about life and how to live it and death and the mystery of it....
Today I see my parents aging.....I see myself aging ..
My dad said to me to day ....he wished he could be young again....I said I wish you could be too.....I told him how shitty I thought it was that just when we get things figured out our time is gone..
He agreed and the conversation ended.....
THE words in the song have me reflecting and wondering not about the next life but about life as I know it now......life as i have lived it to this point... I know there is no going back . As I see the changes my parents are going through I see even more necessity in living life for what its worth...What is it worth....is there a value......there is ....there is value in each breath we take ...there is value in the relationships we are in, value in the air we breathe and value in existence.....
I have hated ...too much and loved too little all the while doing my best to do neither.....
The more I love the better I feel inside and out.... I live
When I hate ....I am bitter and callus and cruel....I die
I think today I will venture in to my new life......one that I do my very best to Love and make each breath worthwhile.....why wait....why wonder????why guess........
I have lived and learned ........now to live and love...
Thanks Black Sabbath maybe soon I will listen to this song
I have never heard it..................
