travelling solider

yes the title is stolen from the dixie chicks song. no this, for once, is not lyrics.

i was listening to the radio earlier on and they had linked up with soldiers in afghanistan so that messages could be sent to and from home. i didn't hear much of it but one thing i did hear was the song "if tomorrow never comes". it was from a guy fighting on the front lines, dedicated to his fiancee. i just sat on my bed and listened to it and it got me thinking how tragic it is that everyday in war someone dies, and their loved ones never get to tell them how they feel, and they don't get to tell them either. death is always sad, but in a situation like that it's unlikely they've seen the people they love for months. and then they're never going to see them again, and they never got to even say 'goodbye'.
most of the time i'm very much someone who lives by the idea that you never know what tomorrow is going to bring, and what would you regret not doing /today/ if you learnt that tomorrow you would die. yeh, it's morbid but it's true, isn't it? everyone spends so long hating and resenting and not being able to forgive, forget and put the past behind them. so few people tell those around them how much they mean to them. maybe the fact i insist on telling everyone how much they mean to me isn't always a good thing but at least they know. at least if something happened to me tomorrow people will know how much they meant to me. thats why i don't (generally) hold grudges (yes there are exceptions but i can only think of one person i dislike and thats because they've only ever said spiteful things to or about me and yet have never actually spoken to me) and why i get over most things very very quickly. yes, sometimes i forget about this way of thinking and thats when things start to go wrong in my life. but the worst thing? when i can't apply this way of thinking. when all i want is to make things right again but i can't. that is the worst.
i don't know where i'm going with this. i guess that we should make the most of everything and everyone because we might not be in afghanistan but why should being put into a life threatening situation be the only thing that jolts us into reality and realise how much the people around us mean to us? time is too precious to waste, make sure you spend it doing what you love and with who you love, and let them know that too.

Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She's lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

'Cause I've lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes






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and to end, heres some more hayley williams!





i love her voice she's amaaaazing. major vocal chord envy :P