Hurt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO9dbmJ_2zU

A Cool Old Man
Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many genres including rockabilly, rock and roll, blues, gospel and folk. He was known for his distinctive bass-baritone voice and was known by his nick name “the man in black”. He traditionally started his concerts with the introduction "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash". Much of Cash's music, especially that of his later career, echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption. He sold over 90 million albums in his nearly fifty-year career and came to occupy a commanding position in music history. In 1997 he was diagnosed to have autonomic neuropathy secondary to diabetes. His album American IV (2002) contained Cash's response to his illness in the form of songs of a more somber tone. The video that was released for “Hurt” a cover of the song by Nine Inch Nails, fit Cash's view of his past and feelings of regret. The video for the song, from American IV, is now generally recognized as his epitaph and received particular critical and popular acclaim. (Information taken from Wikipedia)
Eccleciastes 2:10-11 says, “I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done, and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind, nothing was gained under the sun.”
This video showed a life full of talent, acclaim, wealth, fame, success and almost everything one can ever dream of, yet at the end of his life one cannot help but deeply feel that this life also had its large share of sorrows and regrets. Indeed, “there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work (3:22)… it is good and proper for a man to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in his toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him – for this is his lot… Moreover, when God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work – this is a gift of God.” (5:18-19).
“Death is the destiny of every man” (7:2) all of us living should take this to heart. So what are we to do: “Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man” (12:13)