Get a Life

Anna Quindlen

So here's what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life.

Get a real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? 

Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over the water gap or the way a baby scowls with concentration when she tries to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you.

Source: Commencement address at Villanova University (February 8 1999)

The Father has made us to be in relationship - First with Him and then with our neighbors - Will your life matter when it is over?

I am not sure much else can be said!

If we do this thing with His love flowing we will get out of here alive!