Breathing

I have a close friend who had surgery on one of his lungs due to it collapsing. After he was released from the hospital I would often ask him how he was breathing that day. I was walking home from the Metro the other day, a bit stressed, and lost in thought, and decided I just needed to take some time to stop and breathe. Breathe it all in. Breathe it all out. I remembered a talk I had watched that talked about how life and about breathing. The speaker said that our breathing teaches us how to live. Take it all in and then give it all back. Breathe it all in. Breathe it all out. I find that to be a really beautiful truth. I realized that I had been asking the wrong person that question. Maybe I shouldn't have asked him that question as frequently has I should have asked myself that. How are you breathing today? Or how are you living today? Am I taking it all in and then giving it all back?