Don't Blink!

Don’t blink! I am sitting here in my living room in Provo messing around on the internet and listening to some songs on youtube. I found one of my favorite songs by Kenny Chesney called “Don’t Blink.”

I turned on the evening news
Saw a old man being interviewed
Turning a hundred and two today
Asked him what's the secret to life
He looked up from his old pipe
Laughed and said "All I can say is."

Don't blink
Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think
So don't blink

I was glued to my tv and it looked like he looked at me and said
"Best start putting first things first."
Cause when your hourglass runs out of sand
You can't flip over and start again
Take every breathe God gives you for what it's worth

Don't Blink
Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think
So don't blink

I've been tryna slow it down
I've been tryna take it in
In this here today gone tomorrow world we're livin' in

Don't blink
Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think
So don't blink

Naw, don't blink

Life goes faster than you think...

I love this song because even though I am only 22 it seems like life has just gotten by me. And while somethings seem so far off, I know they really aren’t. For example, I have another 5-6 years of school ahead, marriage, kids, all of that, and I know if I am not careful, and am not proactive and productive, that I could miss a lot of great opportunities and grow in a lot of ways.

It’s like my mission. Everyone thinks that two years are so long, but I remember going to bed the last night of my mission, after two years, and thinking, man, I just got started. It wasn’t like I hadn’t worked or wasted time, it was just that times always moves forward, and little by little, day by day, things move a long.

High school was the same way. Four years, at the time that was a quarter of my life, to spend four years in one school, and that was nothing. My senior year just flew by and I remember sitting in Johnson Gym at UNM watching the state wrestling meet and thinking, what have I done with my six year wrestling career? I loved it, I loved every bit of it, but it seemed like, man, I could have done more. I could have seen more, explored more, and grown more.

I don’t regret any decision I have made with my life. I am just merely observing that sometimes we look to the future so much that we miss the blessings of living in the now! We can find the same great counsel in the scriptures.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. - Matthew 6:34

Love life, and live for today, because today is awesome. Tomorrow will come soon enough, but live in the moment, now. And some day when we are a hundred we can look back and think man, life was great, I never wasted a day!