Woman On Fire Friday Five: Living As If 4g5773

Mahatma Gandhi is quoted as saying that we should “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”  Too often we heart of people being told to live each day as if it were their last day on earth, the very last day of their entire life. Personally, I’ve never liked that suggestion, to live as if the end is waiting just beyond the horizon, waiting to trip me up just as I’m hitting my stride.  The idea of living with the end in mind strikes me as a little manic as I see myself chasing one thing after another. During all of the manic living, are we really taking time to surround ourselves with the joy felt or the pleasure of living?    6ra2y