Once More Into the Fray

Once More Into the Fray

I have another message for you today.

Listen up.

I just watched the movie The Grey with
Liam Neeson last night and I loved it.

It was a very good movie with a big lesson.

The very lesson I am trying to get into your soul, into
your very being every day.

TO LIVE!

In the movie, there was a flashback where Liam’s Dad, a
poet, had written a 4 line poem. The theme of the
poem was always present throughout the movie and was
revealed and integrated into the final scene.

It was so powerful it caught me off guard. I actually stopped
the movie and read it over and over again.

Actually brought tears to my eyes.

Do you want to know what it said?

Here it is:

Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I’ll ever know
Live and die on this day
Live and die on this day

Read it again.

WOW!

I kept this message with me throughout my morning workout.
But after thinking about it all day, I had a different thought.

As I get ready for my second workout today (you don’t want
to know, I don’t want to scare you), I rewrote the poem for me
AND for you.

Are you wondering what I wrote?

Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I’ll ever know
Live OR die on this day
Live OR die on this day

Read that again.

You have a choice. A choice to be average. A choice
to be like everyone else. A choice to stay comfortable.

OR

You have a choice to fight. A choice to crush. A choice
to finally reveal the true you to your friends and those who
thought you could never get to where you are today.

You better fight and LIVE or you will die without ever knowing
what it is to LIVE.

I made the choice a long time ago.

What are you waiting for?

Rage against the dying of the light,

Smitty