Because We’re Mortal

This I think was Bodgen's first though for the day. Bogden like me is a huge movie fan and will take most opportunities to talk about them. Here we are asked to consider how we live each day.

Because We're Mortal by Bogdan Wasylkiw

I was watching the film Troy recently and a line from the film struck me, it was said by Achilles to a priestess. "I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
The part of this I would like to note, 'Because we’re mortal.'
As we go through life how do we act?
Do we act as immortals or as mortals?
Do we ever think that what we have today we may lose tomorrow?
When we go through our daily life do we see and take note of everything around us, remembering that everything has its own place and beauty. We seem to spend time planning for this or that, looking at the future, and I’m not saying this is a bad thing, but do we forget about today, do we go though ignoring things because we can do it tomorrow.
We can go though the day like mechanical robots, at the end of the day can we truly give thanks to God and say that we have lived it as he intended, with love and charity. If we go through the day remembering we are mortals. That any moment may be our last, that we will never be here again. What a difference it could make!