Today is the Tomorrow we worried about Yesterday

“You have so much time, Jude.

“So much time to figure ut who you are and where you’re going.

“So much time to figure out what you want, and your future.”

That’s what they keep telling me.

Like time grows on trees.

But you know what?

They’re wrong.

Time is no renewable resource.

It is always running out,

Like oil, like trees.

We don’t have so much time.

Every second is one you will never get back.

I cannot believe I am eighteen.

I cannot believe my grandmother has been gone for three years.

I cannot believe I am about to graduate.

I cannot believe I’m not a kid anymore.

I cannot believe how long I have had my best friends.

I cannot believe that we have been together for a year.

Why?

Because it doesn’t feel like that long.

But it has been.

That’s the reality of time; it creeps up on you.

You never see it coming till it’s gone.

And it is precious.

And fleeting.

So, Cara mia,

Let’s not talk about today tomorrow.

Lets talk about tomorrow tomorrow.

Tomorrow and our futures.

Our shared futures.

Let’s make plans we’ll never live out.

Let’s make plans we will.

Lets do crazy things.

Lets stay out late and get up early.

Lets drive to the airport every Saturday morning at five a.m. and watch the sun come up, then let’s go to Waffle House. Then let’s go back to your room, and sleep for hours, and be awake to watch the sun go back down.

Lets laugh and smile and feel and experience all there is to experience.

Lets love like there IS no tomorrow.

Like every moment is our last.

And lets live with the passion and intensity that we talk about, that we dream about. That we have inside of us.

Lets set our world on fire.