Time is Ticking Away

Hello,
This past week has been insanely busy and hectic, for many reasons. Last Sunday morning, the husband of a friend of our family passed away. Last Sunday night, my grandfather suffered a major heart attack, and had to go through surgery that the surgeon said was the most dangerous heart surgery out there- more dangerous than a heart transplant. He was given a fifty-fifty chance of survival, and made it. I was able to visit him today, and he is doing well, though still not out of the woods. On Friday, another friend of ours had a major heart attack. I saw him in ICU today, and he is in serious trouble.

All this made me think of our lives. We, as Americans, suffer from the "busy disease". We are constantly on the go- running though our lives trying to get to the "next rung of the ladder of life", whether that be graduation, a pay raise, retirement, whatever. Our minds are constantly on the future, and not enough on our immediate situation. We take our families and our friends for granted, thinking that they will always be with us. The sad truth is- they won't. We will not always have [insert family member here] with us all the time. We must cherish the times we have with them now.

You've probably heard the saying "Don't run through life too fast that you forget to smell the roses". This is amazingly true. We must cherish every moment we have, because we do not know how long we will have. My grandfather was fine all day Sunday. Then at midnight- Boom. He got hit by the heart attack. He didn't know it was coming, and neither did we. We don't know when death will come knocking at our doors either- whether he will be admitted or not.

Think about your life: are you running through life with no intention of slowing down? Are you taking your family and friends for granted?

Slow down. Relax. Cherish that family movie night. Cherish those special moments you have with your spouse. Even cherish that game of fetch with your dog.

Cherish every moment.


Foy Lyndström