In my life...
For a work colleague and a friend, a pain in the stomach turned into a trip to the hospital that revealed an obstructed bowel that then required an operation that discovered a tumor that turned out to be cancerous. Over 4 years ago my friend went through multiple courses of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants before he finally beat his disease into remission. He has now relapsed and my heart is heavy.
The email and subsequent phone calls over the past two weeks have been hard on my emotions. I can’t even begin to fathom what my friend and his family is feeling – surely something beyond devastation. Life is delicate indeed. No matter how much we feel we are in control, and have any situation in hand, our world can be turned on its head in an instant. He told me he gave himself 24 hours to feel sorry, and that now he is just pissed and determined. Knowing that he beat cancer before, I believe he will beat it again.
When things like this can happen to any of us, and in an instant change our lives forever, we realize that we must live in the present. And by this I mean that time and emotions spent in anger, envy, jealousy, or the host of other negative states of mind, is that much less time spent on what is really important. Hug your family, call your mom and dad, smile at someone, hold the door, forgive someone who hurt you. Live today as if there is no tomorrow.
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