You open your eyes on an incredible universe.

You live for a certain number of seconds.

You close your eyes and the universe is gone for ever.

All we have are those precious seconds.

What do we do with them?

How many do we waste?

What does a wasted second look like?

You try to live each second as if it is your last.

What is the best thing to fill it with?

Some say love.

Some say beauty.

Some say sex and some creation.

Some only live to exert power and some to accumulate things.

Some hate every second and look to hit out at everyone else.

Some live every second in hate, envy or agony.

Some fill it with prayer.

Some wish for something else.

Some even say that these seconds do not count. It is the seconds after we close our eyes for that last time that begin to have meaning.

I say live each moment and enjoy it for what it is; fill it with love, joy, friendship and beauty. Value the awe. There is nothing when the last one is spent.

There is no point in living for tomorrow. Your eyes may shut forever.