"Everyday is a gift. What you do- now listen closely- what you do in a given day, you exchange those activities for a day of your life. If you sit at your house on a summer day and sit inside all day long for ten hours and eat junk food and play video games, that's okay if that's what you want. There's no great sin in that. But you'd better recognize one day of the life that God gave you was traded for ten hours of video games. And if you're okay with that, I'm okay with that. It's your life. Nobody's going to tell you what to do with that. I'm just saying the three or four or five things that you do every day, you just traded a day that God gave you." (Thomas, 140)
The following year, the Lions clinched a playoff spot. What had once loomed as a big game now became one in which all the Lions needed to do was take care of business. The practiced hard and non-stop. At the conclusion of practice, the head coach Kris Hogan told his players to lie on their back and place their hands over their eyes to block the sun. Hogan said, "I want you to imagine sixty years from now. Imagine you're ninety, and it is your funeral day. Imagine your family, your wife, your kids are around the table, and they're eating. And they're about to drive to the funeral and all of your old friends, maybe even some people in this story, and your kids' friends have provided a meal. What would your wife and your friends that are in this circle who are there to give your family support, what would they think about you?". The legacy you leave on earth is what you will have done over the past fifty or sixty years. Hogan adds, "For the guys that are juniors and sophomores, you have a long road ahead left of high school. But, some only have a few football games left. What do you want your friends to think about you when you're in college.?" There were a lot of things the guys had to picture in their head while they had their eyes closed.
What I got from this passage is how you have to live in the moment and achieve what you want your life to be like. For example, the quote I chose talks about how someone could sit inside on a nice summer day all day and eat junk food and play video games. But, compared to someone else they could be practicing their favorite sport all day, or making a change in the world. Nobody is going to know who you are and what you are capable of if you sit inside all day and do nothing. You have to go out and explore and take advantage of your life and make it the best possible life ever. This connects to Hogan and his team because he wants them to live in the moment and practice their best so they can do their best and win the championship so they can leave a mark on the school. It is all a matter of how you make your life to be.
This connects to be because during anytime of the year especially summer, I am always go-go-go. I feel like I waste a day if I am inside doing nothing. Everyone of my friends can describe me as someone who always wants to do something. My family can say the same thing about me also. This past year I have learned to always live in the moment because eventually you are going to look back and wish you could do that certain day over again. You don't want to look back at your life or have people remember you on your funeral day knowing you absolutely did nothing. My cheerleading coach always makes my team, like Hogan's, close our eyes and picture the competition we were about to attend in our heads to help us picture what we should accomplish. Something that also helps me is realizing what you are doing in the exact moment.
Somehow I feel like this book isn't getting to your topic as much as the last one did.
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