Live Every Day

Just listened to a speech by Steve Jobs where he opined on the popular saying "live every day like it's your last." He lives by this creed, and I know many others who also have this as their motto. I just don't think I can.

I think I am the "live every day like it's your first" kinda gal. Treating every day like a fresh opportunity, full of hope, a world of potential before me is my ideal. I know the idea of living every day like your last SHOULD seem like it would work for me, what with my fundamental needs for deadlines. But I still think of deadlines (despite the name) as beginnings, not deaths or endings. Living today like it was my last would mean I would be wrapping everything up so there are no loose ends to my personal little existence. Whereas living today like it is my first would mean making loose ends, exploring, creating, searching, hoping, progressing, moving forward, upward, outward.

Maybe what I really need is just to live today like it's the day that's meant for me to be living; maybe I just need to live today–not like it's my first or my last–but my perfect now day.