To cherish

What does it mean to cherish what you have?

This is something I have asked myself for some time now

and here is my answer...

I think to cherish what you have is to savor a thought or a memory.
To carry it with you everywhere you go in order to be reminded of
how lucky you are. To realize that at any minute your world and life
could come to a complete. You will only be known by what you have done
and remembered by what you have said or didn't say.
So you attempt to live and love the best you know how.
So that the ones you hold dear will have no doubt how you feel and how 

they mean so much to you.

Whether it's immediate family or a spouse, give them the comfort of knowing that the preacher wont need to lie at your funeral. Amaze them, dance to the  edge of losing yourself and then come back so that they know your true. Do not falter and always tell them you love them, for tomorrow is only a gift from God.

Keep your head up soldier

Life is like a roller coaster brother, there's ups and downs, and even times you seem to go back the direction you came from. Like a roller coaster, that's not what you want to do, you want to keep moving forward to see what else it has in store for you. No matter how twisted and turned around it may seem like it gets, you're always on the track and moving forward. There is no sense in wishing you could go back and do things differently for two reasons; The first being that it is literally impossible to do that. The second is because you wouldn't be the person you are today. Let's say you did go back and change some things about your life, it's like a domino effect. You may have changed something as simple as what you wore in school, which would affect who you hung out with, what you did and became in life, and possibly even you meeting the wonderful woman that bore kids with you. One thing is for certain, you must always live on no matter how hard life gets and no matter how much shit you take. If you feel like you can't live on for yourself, live on for your brothers that no longer have that choice. Live on and see what beauty and pain there is to this world, because they don't get to anymore. All the heartache and happy times, all the drama and laughter, all things they no longer get to experience. As their brother in arms, it is your duty to continue on for them and experience these things. You are not alone in this struggle, we all face this and we are all here together, as brothers.