last's & first's

I've started hearing people my age say something new - "Well, that's the last time I'll do that."

It represents to me a mind set of "last's" - a saying goodbye to life, a closing out of many of the experiences of life we all do regularly.

I don't want that to be my mind set in the years ahead.

I want my life to be defined by the "first's" I'm encountering. As long as I live, whether it be long or short, I want to be growing, questing, experimenting, saying "hello" to new things, new people, new thinking, & new experiences.

My grandmother lived to be 108. She once told me, at 104, "Danny, live till ya die."

I intend to, Granny.