Bringing it Back

Rather than writing another post...thought I would just use this one.  This post is from around this time last year...enjoy!
Just a Reminder...Time Isn't Always on Your Side

It seems like yesterday... starting my first day at Francis Howell North. Walking through the huge hallways as a freshman. Where did the years go?
Or sophmore year, going into a school much more confident than the year before. I had walked the hallways, knew where the classes were and could finally look down on another group of students.
Junior year... that was a year to remember. My first homecoming, year of my first official girlfriend, my first prom. Man was that the year.
And then of course, Senior year. The big dawgs on campus. We could look down at all of the classes. The year of our graduation, all knighter, last prom, last homecoming, senior skip day and so much more.
Sure they were all great years, they all had their hype and their excitement. But what gets me is all the missed opportunities. The times that i failed to show who I truely was. To show that I lived for Christ and no one else. The times I went down the halls without saying a simple "Hi" to a person who needed it. The persons that I forgot to pray for when they were hurting. The conversations that I never had because I was too afraid to say something. What I would do to have those chances back.
Its comes with a lesson though, time is too short to waste. Time is never on your side. Take advantage of your opportunites Eric, you may never get them back. Say something...what do you have to lose?
So as I start my new year, at a new school with people who have never met me, it becomes increasingly important to live my life as if it is my last day with these people who I have yet to know. Whether i am uncomfortable or just scared, what do I have to lose? That they wont like me... haha, they dont even know me. And thats the point. Who do I want them to know? The Eric who says nothing and really has nothing to say, or the Eric who lives for Christ and whose actions and words reflect that.