Saturday 9: Live Like You Were Dying

Live Like You Were Dying (2003) 

I loved this song when it came out. Has it really been that long? Where has the time gone????

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1) This song is about a man whose father advises him to live life to the fullest, to become "the friend you'd like to have." How about you? Are you the friend you'd like to have?  I try, but to be perfectly honest, I know I fall short. I'm an introvert and sometimes I just don't have it in me to put myself out there for others. Sometimes I just need to be alone. But to be fair to myself, I don't think anyone is the perfect friend. We are all imperfect people living in an imperfect world. There is no way we can be everything one person needs without letting them down now and then...no matter how hard we try. I just don't believe it's a doable thing.

2) The song lists several "bucket list" items: skydiving, mountain climbing, riding a bull. Have you done any of those things? Would you like to?  Of those three things? I haven't done any of them and I don't have any desire to do any of them. I'm pretty much too old and too out of shape for anything but the skydiving, anyway, and there is no way that's gonna happen!

3) In the music video, Tim McGraw is wearing a white button-down shirt, blue jeans and a cowboy hat. Which of those items is in your wardrobe?  All of them.

4) He wears a cowboy hat because he is embarrassed by the size of his forehead. When you wear a hat, are you more likely doing it for style, like Tim, or for protection from the elements?  Probably the elements more than for style because I just don't like how I look in hats.

5) McGraw's biological father was Tug McGraw, pitcher for the Mets and Phillies. How did your baseball team do this season? Ha! You assume I have a baseball team. I do not.

6) Tim McGraw and wife Faith Hill live just outside of Nashville. They enjoy inviting friends over to sit around a bonfire, drinking beer and playing guitars. Tell us about the most recent gettogether you had with friends. My bible study group had a little celebration of the Hebrew New Year last week. We had some yummy food and got caught up with each other since we haven't all been together for a while with everyone taking vacations, traveling to see far away children, etc. If that doesn't count, Tim and I got dinner with another couple and spent the evening shooting the breeze. Normally we play games and drink wine, but the husband had just gotten home from having surgery and wasn't quite up to it.

7) Tim likes his tattoos. He admits his silliest one -- a leprechaun wearing a cowboy hat -- was acquired during a night of drinking. Do you have a tattoo? If so, are you glad you have it and would you get it again? I have this on my right ankle....

Yes, I'd be willing to get another tattoo, but I probably won't. My daughter and I have always talked about mother/daughter ones, but can never agree on the design. If I did get another one it would probably be a trail of footprints on the side of my foot just above the sole and the words "Walk by faith."

8) In 2003, when this song was popular, the supersonic Concord took its last flight. When did you most recently board a plane? What was your destination?  I haven't been on a plane since 2002. Tim and I led a group of teens on a mission trip to the Navajo reservation in New Mexico and Arizona. It was only about 7 months after 9-11 and everyone was still kind of feeling their way with all the new security measures. It was different and some things they did in the name of security were a little over the top.
 
9) Random question: When did you last walk around the house naked? Um, like...never.