Living life to the fullest

Slow Dance

Have you ever watched kids

On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain

Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down,

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short,

The music won't last.

Do you run through each day

On the fly?

When you ask how are you?

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done,

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

Running through your head?

You'd better slow down,

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short,

The music won't last.

Ever told your child

We'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die?

Cause you never had time

To call and say 'Hi'?

You'd better slow down,

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short,

The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere,

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like unopened gift thrown away.

Life is not a race,

Do take it slower.

Hear the music,

Before the song is over.

This beautiful poem was written by a special girl who will soon leave this world due to cancer. She has only six months left. She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own. But she wrote this poem, simply just to deliver a simple message to us, that is to 'live life to the fullest, slow down'.

I find this really meaningful and I hope to share her poem here with all my friends and everyone around me. The poem's right, life is not a race, slow down and see the world, you will learn something new that you never knew existed. The key word is appreciate.