Live your life!

I've always been a fan of living life without regrets and enjoying what you do.

Sally Meyerhoff, an elite marathon runner, kept a fairly upbeat blog. I didn't even know about it's existence until yesterday but it's affected me deeply!

Her blog included posts like:

February 3rd:

Anyway, thank goodness nothing drastic has happened in my life (knock on wood), but lately I've been forcing myself to think about what really matters to me in my life right now. I have so many goals and dreams for myself and I'm not a very patient person, so I tend to analyze and stress about how I am going to make them all happen, ASAP! I don't like to make the excuse "Oh I'm still pretty young. I have time"...because we don't know how much time we will have in life, and I want to live everyday with no regrets.

She closed out her March 6th post with:

March 6th:

I cannot express how HAPPY I am with where I am in my life right now though, and how grateful I feel for being able to do what I do. I just wouldn't trade it for anything and any time I am feeling not very motivated, I think about how miserable I feel when I am not training or doing something else I don't LOVE. I totally and completely love this life I'm living and the most fabulous think is that I know it's only going to get 20 times better by the end of the year. Woo hoo baby!

She passed away on March 8th at 27 years old in a biking accident.

Life is exciting, and tragic all at the same time.