{"id":4358,"date":"2009-11-30T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2024-04-17T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T10:48:13","slug":"i-hope-you-have-the-time-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/11\/i-hope-you-have-the-time-of-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hope You Have the &#8216;Time of Your Life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) [Official Music Video] [4K UPGRADE]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CnQ8N1KacJc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Time of Your Life <\/strong><em>(Green Day)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Another turning point;<br \/>\na fork stuck in the road.<br \/>\nTime grabs you by the wrist;<br \/>\ndirects you where to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments: <\/strong>&#8216;Now&#8217; is always a turning point for the rest of our lives,<br \/>\nthat eternal fork between the past and the future.<br \/>\nTime is the river we must flow in.<br \/>\nWe must change, but we can change the way we want too.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">So make the best of this test<br \/>\nand don&#8217;t ask why.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not a question<br \/>\nbut a lesson learned in time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments: <\/strong>&#8216;Now&#8217; is always a test of how well you can handle life.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no need to ask why some inexplicable negative karmic stuff happen,<br \/>\nas long as we learn from them,<br \/>\non how to prevent them from happening again.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[Chorus:] It&#8217;s something unpredictable<br \/>\nbut in the end it&#8217;s right.<br \/>\nI hope you had the time of your life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments: <\/strong>&#8216;Now&#8217; always presents much that is unpredictable,<br \/>\nbut we can make it alright by taking it in mindful good spirit,<br \/>\nby changing &#8216;now&#8217; for the better.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">So take the photographs<br \/>\nand still frames in your mind.<br \/>\nHang it on a shelf<br \/>\nIn good health and good time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments: <\/strong>&#8216;Now&#8217; is the only time to create and &#8216;capture&#8217; good memories,<br \/>\nby living this moment fully, without regrets,<br \/>\nsuch that all memories on hindsight will be wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Tattoos of memories<br \/>\nand dead skin on trial.<br \/>\nFor what it&#8217;s worth,<br \/>\nit was worth all the while. [Chorus&#8230;]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reflect on our past decisions and actions<br \/>\nto learn well and all will be worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now&#8217; is always the time of your life.<br \/>\nI hope you have the time of your life.<br \/>\nMiss &#8216;now&#8217; and you miss the time of your life.<br \/>\nIf life is lived in a worthy way for even one moment, it will always be worthy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The video shows ordinary folks in\u00a0their everyday lives<br \/>\nsuddenly paying attention, basking in the &#8216;now&#8217;,<br \/>\nliving in the moment in spite the &#8216;dreariness&#8217; of it all.<br \/>\nWith awareness of &#8216;now&#8217;, everything becomes fresh, magical.<br \/>\nWith mindfulness, we all come alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mindfulness is the path to the deathless;<br \/>\nHeedlessness is the path to death.<br \/>\nThe mindful do not die;<br \/>\nBut the heedless are as if dead already.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Buddha<br \/>\n(Dhammapada)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[ad#nimrod]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time of Your Life (Green Day) Another turning point; a fork stuck in the road. 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