Precious Moments

No, I'm not talking about cutesy Hallmark figurines, I'm talking about what can daily be taken away without warning, without notice, without reason, without fairness, without justification; specifically I'm talking about your life. It can happen walking across the street, it can happen in a plane, it can happen on vacation, it can happen in a supermarket, it can happen at work, it can happen at school, it can happen in your home and it can happen in your sleep.


I don't know if studies have ever been done around the odds of knowing in advance you're dying vs. it just happening out of the blue. It isn't that I want to dwell on a sad subject, it's just that my stepdaughter's dad and her husband are going through a very tough time right now and their situation brought all this home to me...again. Her father-in-law's mom died about 7-9 months ago rather suddenly. His sister just died in her sleep a week ago, suddenly.



Last night he had to rush his wife to the hospital because she couldn't breathe. She is in ICU, she was diagnosed with ARDS and they are giving her a 50/50 chance of survival, especially because she has this condition in both lungs. She is in our thoughts as she struggles with the sudden onset of this disease.



None of us can see around the corner to know what will happen to us next week let alone tomorrow. This is not only a reminder to be kind to each other, it is also another reminder not to waste any time doing what you don't want to do and to spend it with whom you want, every minute of every day. Every moment is indeed precious, you'll never get it back.