While you have your legs, run freely in the grass. Feel the earth between your toes, play tag with your friends, catch touchdowns, and let the sun tire you out. While you have your hands, conduct full symphonies. Write love letters and journal your happiest memories, get an A+ on your assignments. Run your fingers over colorful flowers and warm sand beaches.
While you have your mind, create masterpieces like only you can. Organize lists, raise funds for great causes, tell stories, and soak up every drop of knowledge that today's world has waiting for you. Learn more about things you love and research things you've never heard of.
While you still have your teeth, smile the biggest and brightest smile until your cheeks hurt. Laugh with a full belly, spend time with people who make you brighter, and even smile in the face of adversity and dark nights. Smile so brightly that the world needs sunglasses.
While you still have your family and friends, appreciate them fully. Spend time with the ones you can, and check up on the ones you can't. Use your phone to brighten someone else's day by simply saying 'hello'. Cancel other plans to be a shoulder when they're sad, or toast to their success. When they've won, you've won. Hug too long, squeeze too tight. Say 'I love you' often, but NEVER say 'goodbye'.
Our days are too short, and they go by way too fast. The gifts and the people and the places that fill your daily life today, will be gone next year, or next month, or next week. Love these things now, while you still have them.
