Time Flies - Don't Blow It!

It’s seems like just yesterday, but it was actually six years ago, March 24, 2003 that the first In The Zone for Sports Show aired on WLBG.
My, how things have changed in six years. Six years ago I was doing a morning show in Columbia on ESPN Radio 1230 and then would drive the hour and a half to Laurens to work an afternoon show.
In six years the landscape of my life and sports has changed dramatically. Six years ago John Robert, aka Jon-Jon was in 8th grade. Savannah was still in kindergarten and the wins were not even two years old yet.
We fast forward to the present to find JR in his second year of college, Savannah is a 5th grader and the twins are in first grade.
I recently joined “the present” as people tell me when I created a Facebook page. I like to consider myself somewhat technology savvy but I have to tell you that when you think back 15 years who’d have thought most people would think they just couldn’t live without a cell phone.
That I would replace a big duffel bag of CD’s with an iPod that currently carries 10,000 songs on it.
Amanda joined Facebook a month ago and even she will admit she’s hooked. I also must admit that it’s been neat reconnecting with people that were a part of my life in times past. Kids that I coached in soccer, taught in Sunday School or just simply knew have grown leaps and bounds.
Some have already graduated college, gotten married and some even have their own children.
My how time flies. That being said, one thing I also believe strongly in is that age is a number. We all have one “birth date” yet year after year we count the number of birthdays. Sometimes we get so caught up in numbers that we forget we are only as young as we feel.
I know plenty of young 45 year olds. I also know plenty of old 25 year olds. Don’t get me wrong, if I had life to live over again, I’m sure there are several things I could have done differently, but I also know that I wouldn’t change much.
It seems like every week I hear about a friend who is battling an illness. Cancer has gripped several people close to me and it has served as a wakeup call.
The time we spend on this earth is precious. Just as quickly as it was given to us, God can take it away. It’s the time between that we all need to remind ourselves that each day is precious. Don’t blow it.