Drink Your Wine & Leave a Wake.

“Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.” 


So often we’re always looking ahead to something, or trying to catch up, or worrying about if what we’re doing is worthwhile. We’re very rarely just living. 


Amanda had recommended this book, Death by Living, on her blog a little while ago. I feel like this quote sums up everything in my head that I’m always trying to figure out. Because sometimes, in the middle of life, we can get so bogged down with is this it? Is this what I’m supposed to be doing? Should I be feeling more significant? 


And to that I say: Drink your wine and laugh from your gut. Life is meant to be spent, it is meant to be enjoyed. 


I think that we hear the words “don’t waste your life” and immediately think it means we should be doing more important, worthwhile things. We should be working harder or finding a better job or making more money or contributing more to society. Not that any of those things are bad things, but I think it’s possible to do all of that and still waste your life. 


You waste your life when you choose to not spend it. Time can either be stolen from you or you can spend it. It’s going to pass either way. So why not use it up for all it’s worth? When you go to bed each night, be completely empty of all the life you had to give that day. Let every breath you take scream thankfulness. 


Spending your life can look big and significant and planned out. Or, it can look like Chick-fil-a runs and pool days and phone dates. The important thing is that you’re spending your life. All of it. That you’re empty when the clock runs out. 


If time is a river, may you leave a wake.