How To Live Your Life

Holy crap, this is about the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read. It’s from a post about Elizabeth Edwards:

If I found out today that I had a year to live, and that meant I would change the way I spend my days, then I need to change the way I spend my days now.

I watched the 60 minutes interview with her and her husband last night. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such quiet courage — she wasn’t ostentatious about it, or steadfast, or defiant, or any of the cliches we normally use for people who’ve decided not to let their illness define them. The only difference between me and everyone else, she said, is that I know how I’m going to die. I don’t see why that should change the way I live.

Amen.