I don’t really know James. In fact I only met him once during my sizzie’s birthday party. But I see a lot of him in pictures and just today heard him sing in YouTube. James is my sizzie’s college buddy and from her laptop pictures I would say he’s her vain-mate as well (if there is such a term). They have thousands of pictures together, I think. I like looking at his pictures and I even told my sizzie that he’s my crush for her… meaning I want him to be her boyfriend (haha!). They look good together and I really really like his smile. He seems full of life. Well, not anymore. You see, James bid his last goodbye on Sunday morning while the rest of the world was sleeping. James was diagnosed with bone cancer on the same month of his 18th birthday and 7 months after God made him come home. I guess God thought that his suffering was enough. And then the world was sad. I shouldn’t be affected by this because as I said, I don’t even know him. But I know my sizzie and I know he’s important to her. I saw her cry when she heard the news, I heard how she struggled through singing in church that same day as she held back the tears, I see her cry now and laugh at the same time at how silly she must’ve looked. I clicked on her FB link of James’ YouTube version of Disturbia and I couldn’t help but cry. He was full of life. He was funny. He was alive. It made me realize that life is in fact short. We may feel that we’ve struggled enough or that we’ve been in pain for too long, whether it be physical or on the inside, and we just can’t wait for everything to end… for things to change. We feel this while others are asking for just another day. Lord, just give me another day. Another day to spend time with the one I love, another day to say sorry to those I’ve hurt, another day to just visit the friend who’ve been inviting me over, another day to have a date with my mom or dad, another day to just dance again or sing again or write again or read again or play with the kids or just have one meal with the whole family again. Another day to just stop being busy with this so called real world and spend time with what and who really matters. Tomorrow may never even come. Cliché as it may sound but we really shouldn’t wait until it’s too late. Whatever it is that you’ve been putting off, do it now. Seize the day. Carpe diem. Thank you James.