Life is fragile appreciate it.
I think we are all guilty of taking life for granted until that moment someone or something tries to snatch it from you or your loved one. Think about it we take most things for granted , we have forgotten the true value of life. Without life nothing else is relevant or possible , funny that ! Life is special, a gift to be treasured, shared and enjoyed . A healthy , carefree life is a precious gift indeed.
We must be thankful everyday , find contentment in all we have and be happy with the people we have in our lives. Life is fragile, one day it's stable but in just a second, minute, hour, day it can flash before your eyes and be destroyed and taken away. You know I've experienced that and I know many of you reading this will have also. Tragedies can occur any time, fatal accidents, illness, murder, no organ donor.......Then what happened in Paris last night.
All those people were out for the evening, enjoying life, out with friends and family, for a meal, drink, sporting event or concert. They weren't doing anything wrong, just innocent ordinary people. People just like us. Their lives snuffed out or changed in a split second by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This was out of their control, there was no warning. Their lives were taken from them in a brutal way. The ripples of this tragedy are touching us all today. They were real people someone's loved ones. See life is fragile.
I'm just as guilty as the next person for not appreciating all I have, God I have a great life, lovely family, beautiful house, friends who love me.....I really shouldn't let a bad day bring me down, obviously discounting Eloise's precarious post transplant health from this ! I'm talking about the small niggles and arguments. We're all lucky and I think if we were all a bit more positive and a hell of a lot kinder to ourselves and others we would benefit. This week we have put together our Christmas gift bags to donate to a homeless project and gathered a few more things for a friend to take to a homeless shelter. That felt good, positive and worthwhile. Doing that made me happy . It was meant to be World Kindness Day yesterday after all.
What really matters in life ? We preoccupy our day with technology, we fill our day with worries , we get angry about the wrong thing. Life becomes very complicated, maybe over complicated ? We need to make it simple and enjoy it. We should learn tolerance, we're all different and that's ok it would be a boring place otherwise . We shouldn't let others bring us down effecting our mood or mind. Again I'm guilty of that, I over think everything, every conversation, every text, often creating a problem that never existed. Then getting mad at my foolishness ! So make time for those you love and love being with. Let them know you love them, tell them, hug them close.
We get engrossed in our own lives, again I feel I'm often complaining, whiny and dissatisfied. Hands up who moans about their jobs, lives, days, their home, their kids or their partner ? If we are honest we all do. We need to stop being so negative, I appreciate life's no Disney Fairytale and I'm no Mother Theresa but I'm sure we could all find something positive in every day ? Try it.
I don't watch the news normally, bit of an ostrich really. What I don't see can't touch me kind of thing. It's because it only focuses on the bad news, the horrors going on in the World. I guess it has to but every day wonderful things are happening to. The stories that restore your faith in human nature. How many times have you been out with a friend and only talked about your problems ? Please don't be scared to be happy, I sometimes feel I don't share all my happiness worried it will be snatched away from me or I've interpreted it wrong and I'll look stupid.
Maybe we all need to remember You Only Live Once, one chance at getting things right. So let's try to appreciate life and enjoy it gather than letting it trickle through our fingers. Before you know it life has a habit of passing you by. Life should be a collection of experiences , memories shared with the people you love. That's all there is to life really if you strip it right back to basics. We've made life complicated, well those of us who have moved away from being cavemen !
It's sad really that we need reminders of life's fragility, Paris tragedy, Boston, 7/7 , 9/11 to sadly name just a few. We're not invincible though my transplanted friends are superhuman and have more than one life ( that's different !) None of us are here for ever, our time will be up at some point and for many of us we won't know when. So live every day as if it's your last, enjoy it with no regrets.
Although I don't want to I'm trying to make my peace with the thought of death and dying. It's a scary thing death, not my own death but the death of those I love. I have struggled with death before and I know I need to find peace. Death is the only certainty in life so perhaps we should talk about it more. Talk about those we have loved and lost. To not be afraid to mention the name of someone who has died with fear of upsetting their loved ones. Not mentioning them hurts more.
So what's the point in not enjoying life ? Be grateful for it, in my transplant world people are dying waiting for an organ transplant they're desperate to live. Live for the moment my friends and that moment is now.
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