“Live Each Day Like Its Your Last”
Live Each Day Like It’s Your Last
My dad tells me his thoughts on the way home. “when you get old it all starts happening to you. I was ok until I got to around seventy-five then everything started to happen. I’ve lost an ear through skin cancer, I can only see clearly in one eye and I’ve had my bladder and prostrate removed.”
“Old age is horrible really. Live each day like it’s your last and make the best of your life”
I felt this is a good message to everyone. If only we all could live with this rule, really live with this rule. Only a few people I have ever met live with this in mind.
They don’t take the cautious route, they follow their dreams and don’t take the easy and safe route. They follow their hearts and do what it is that they feel they were put on this earth to do, (whatever their religious beliefs are or are not).
When you are at mid life, and wondering how much time you have left it’s a good time to consider your life past, present and future.
Life really is too short, you probably never thought about it before when you were young, but now, you can see age coming soon. You might have a bigger sister or brother who is now close to their 50’s and are trying to accept that you are next for the big five – zero .
"One minute she was writing the card, the next her long life was over."
At the end of the day my mother gave me a birthday card that my Aunt had written for my daughter. My aunt had written ‘Happy Birthday” from Sally and Peter”.
The card was never put in its envelope or sent to my daughter because she died 5 days before her birthday.
It was as if whilst she looked for the envelope her life had ended, half way through the sending of that card and felt like a sound way to end a day of reflection on the value of life and how things can change for us at a moment’s notice.
One minute she was writing the card, the next her long life was over.
How do you deal with the cycle of life ?
Guy
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Filed under: Mid-Life Crisis, Philosophical
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