The first real warm day for as long as I care to remember, that I even care to mention it underlines how long the winter has actually lasted in the UK. It's been a long haul and the inclement climate has only added to the woes of a faltering economy and bad news days every other day. One thing has changed this week for me however, after having listened intently to a radio programme describing the moments experienced by terminal cancer sufferers on their initial diagnosis i have had the comments and thoughts of those involved buzzing around my head ever since.
What if?, what if I was put in that position and was given months or even weeks to live?. The initial reaction would be to do everything that you had hoped to do and create a list so that you could mark them off one by one. That would be human nature, we take everything for granted until it is taken away or threatened, then we go into hyper-space to try and fit as much of what we will be missing in in half the time.
But the question that really made me sit down and think, well not so much a question more a statement came from a breast cancer sufferer who was diagnosed terminally a couple of years ago and is literally a ticking bomb, she said "why do we have to wait until we are diagnosed with a terminal illness before we actually start to live life".... and to be honest I cannot get that thought out of my head.
What if our very next action after getting up from reading this is to actually start into motion some of the things we really do want to do? What is stopping us? duty?.. finance?... family? or just a feeling that you have years yet so you have loads of time to fit all those things in?.
Well I for one look at life a little differently after that programme, not a little unconnected to the sheer weight of work i have been getting through of late that has caused me physical and mental stress that cannot continue at it's current pace as it is making me ill.
I guess I am saying to you all don't take life for granted Never was "seize the day" more apt than in this maelstrom and cacophony of crazy working hours and on-time pressure that modern life spoon feeds us with continuously, it is time that all of us stepped back and gave ourselves time to live a little. I for one intend to start doing so and today with this wonderful warm sunshine it seems one hell of a good day to start.
What if?, what if I was put in that position and was given months or even weeks to live?. The initial reaction would be to do everything that you had hoped to do and create a list so that you could mark them off one by one. That would be human nature, we take everything for granted until it is taken away or threatened, then we go into hyper-space to try and fit as much of what we will be missing in in half the time.
But the question that really made me sit down and think, well not so much a question more a statement came from a breast cancer sufferer who was diagnosed terminally a couple of years ago and is literally a ticking bomb, she said "why do we have to wait until we are diagnosed with a terminal illness before we actually start to live life".... and to be honest I cannot get that thought out of my head.
What if our very next action after getting up from reading this is to actually start into motion some of the things we really do want to do? What is stopping us? duty?.. finance?... family? or just a feeling that you have years yet so you have loads of time to fit all those things in?.
Well I for one look at life a little differently after that programme, not a little unconnected to the sheer weight of work i have been getting through of late that has caused me physical and mental stress that cannot continue at it's current pace as it is making me ill.
I guess I am saying to you all don't take life for granted Never was "seize the day" more apt than in this maelstrom and cacophony of crazy working hours and on-time pressure that modern life spoon feeds us with continuously, it is time that all of us stepped back and gave ourselves time to live a little. I for one intend to start doing so and today with this wonderful warm sunshine it seems one hell of a good day to start.
I couldn't have said it any better myself. May your life change for the better... "go by the grace of god go I" not in death but in life. X
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