| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 10/3/2008 8:08:03 PM | Today I heard news of a friends loss of a loved one. His wife of 30 years gone with no real notice. Things like this happen everyday, but only seem to make us think when it is someone close to us. Watching someone lose a loved one or having to suffer that pain yourself is never any fun. In fact, it's down right agonizing, making even a grown man cry. Tough exteriors are no defense and emotion cannot be fought and won.
I have lost loved ones, as recent as a year ago. But yet seemed to forget the importance of the ones around me. Death seems to put us in check and remind us just how much we need to let those we love know just how much we care. It takes tragedy to show realization to those involved and affected. I'm always amazed at how much you can love someone and yet them never even have a clue.
All too often we take life for granted. We start living too late and we pass up too many chances, leaving behind nothing more than a heart full of regret and a head full of "What if's"! I ask myself why I lose track of myself and the ones I love. Why I forget to live for today and love for tomorrow? But, I guess the most horrific thing I have realized is that no matter how much death I encounter, No matter how often I have come to grieve, No matter how many times I say I want to make sure I don't take them for granted or the life that I have been given....I still seem to allow the months and years to plow on and I lose sight of that simple plan to live my life and to go for what I want and WORST of all, letting my dear family and friends and even the occasional significant other know just what they mean to me. | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 10/3/2008 9:14:38 PM |
We start living too late and we pass up too many chances, leaving behind nothing more than a heart full of regret and a head full of "What if's"!
You're 23 according to your profile, much wiser than many your age, at least from what I read in your words. Wiser than I was at your age for sure. You see death as your ultimate end, something that not all young people see.
Most don't see it because it was not taught to us or discussed during our early years. We were immune to any such thing. You are correct in your thinking, in my opinion anyway. You're basically saying that death begins at birth. It is what we do between birth and death that defines our individual life. | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 10/18/2008 12:45:52 PM | I saw a quote and I apologize as I do not remember who said it, nor do I have the time to look it up at the moment. But, it spoke such truth to me.
"It is not life being so short that is sad, but rather how long it takes us to start living."
How true is this!?! | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 6/17/2009 5:33:39 PM | | So often true, when we're bombared things in our life, we often take things for granted like relationships... Life is too short, to worry or care what other people think. Do what makes YOU happy in the end. | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 6/17/2009 9:08:45 PM | A little over 3 weeks ago, an old and dear friend(73-years old) of mine whom I loved dearly, and her 91-year old mother, were killed when a woman ran a stop sign and plowed right into their car.
Even though I've always been aware of it, this tragedy made me realise even more that if there's anything I want to do, I had better do it. | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 6/23/2009 6:31:58 AM | Some of the gifts I have been given by having dealt with life’s tragedies are:
I smile quicker
Laugh harder
Deal with life head on
Follow my heart
I am not nearly so quick to jump to conclusions about people or situations
Treasure relationships
Say it now, not later.
Try and look at the whole picture, not just the snapshot I see before me
Make no mistake, these things to me are gifts.
The list goes on and on. | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 6/23/2009 7:19:11 AM | | Very true.I learned this the hard way in 2005.Almost lost my life.I lost everything that year...wife ,stepchildren,2 of my 3 dogs,possessions and then almost died in oct that year.this experience has made me very strong now but I also took stock in what I had left.What i had left was family.I was never one to say "I love you" much.When i talk to my family and kids on the phone,e mail,in person etc,my last words to them are always I Love You. | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 6/23/2009 7:48:57 AM | It's a real shame that it often takes a crisis or tragedy to make us realize what really matters. I was "fortunate", so it took me more than forty years to learn this.
Lucky me! | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 6/23/2009 9:08:20 AM | It's true that it seems to take a tragedy to shake us out of our stupor of just living life rather than experiencing it. 9-11 really shook people up and for a few months people were much kinder to each other, even those who had no personal connection to the massive loss of life. But, eventually that wears away to those that don't pay attention and they get right back to taking everything and everyone for granted.
My parents and in-laws always lived for the time they would be retired so they could do what they dreamed of. But... my father died at 60 and my mother-in-law at 64. So, what good was that?
Don't live life waiting for someday. Someday I'll have enough money, someday I'll retire and have time, someday I'll have someone to love... then I'll travel, then I'll get a boat, then I'll have fun. Be aware of now, the present and do something NOW! | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 6/23/2009 10:32:31 AM | I think by now we have concluded EVERYDAY IS A GIFT. That's why it is called THE PRESENT. Now, to come full circle, Mother Teresa once said, “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.”
One of the small things we can do with great love is to tell our friends and family members exactly how much they mean to us. Far too many times the words are left unsaid, left until it is too late to say them. Don’t let this happen to you, or if it already has, don’t let it happen again.
There is a quotation left by an unknown author that has inspired countless numbers of people over the years. Whether it’s your first or one-hundredth time to see it let it inspire you to action. “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
Oceans of Love, Luck and Happiness,
Aloha. | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 11/5/2009 8:05:16 PM | | There was an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show many years ago which I remember as it had some impact on understanding this issue. One of the characters had a brush with death. This caused that character to immediately want to cherish and value every day, every moment, to 'stop and smell the flowers,' etc. The other characters in the show were touched by this and also wanted to take on the same perspective, so they all began being very conscious of experiencing life more fully and living in the moment and cherishing each day, etc. The irony was that they found they couldn't keep it up....that life goes on and you get caught up in the mundane and the stresses and complications, and just can't live life as if you are going to die at any moment. It's unrealistic. That was the theme of the program, and I agree. Nice thought, but not workable in reality. | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 11/5/2009 8:57:39 PM |
Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Life is also to short to waste precious Exclamations marks.*
We are born, if we survive to sexual maturity we attempt to breed and then we die.
Nothing really very special about that, humans have been doing it for millions of years.
Putting too high a value on anything is a great way to manufacture unnecessary stress and or gain viewer ship with cable news networks.
*Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own jokes.
F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 11/5/2009 9:21:55 PM |
"It is not life being so short that is sad, but rather how long it takes us to start living."
How true is this!?
You have hit the nail on the head here with that statement. As a hospice nurse I have heard many of my patients wishing that they could have lived the life that they put on hold forever........... | |
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| Life is TOO short to be taken for granted!!!!!!
Posted: 11/5/2009 9:47:27 PM | | Life is just one of those things. I don't care when I die because when I die...I won't care. Until then, I will enjoy it as responsibly as possible without being a total stick in the mud. | |
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