if not today…
by jcf. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.
Yesterday I visited my friend Florian. He had a shaved head and a slightly swollen face. His eyes were closed during most of my visit. He was neither asleep nor quite awake. Probably due to the multiple drugs he was taking at that time. But he recognized me and held my hand firmly, pressing it rhythmically.
He had a brain tumor removed a couple of days earlier. Actually, his second brain tumor. He just turned 30 and his wife gave birth to their second child only a few weeks ago. We weren’t sure if he would make it, he was in coma until the day before I visited him.
I talked to my wife after the experience and told her that this experience made me rethink my priorities. Today I read If Not On The Day I Die, Then Not Today triggered by a post by Kathy Sierra.
It’s time to not only thinking about changing priorities, it’s time to actually change them.
Dear JC –
I hope your friend is going to feel better in no time – it is odd how people react when reality is catching up to us..
I think the biggest effect that death has ever had on me, was when I ( as 21 year old) lost one of my best friends in a car accident. I don’t think about him a lot anymore – I think about the person who drove the car, and because of his wreckless driving, had him killed.
since I became a mother I could cry all the time about the wars in the world, and the innocent children that are affected by wars – loosing their parents.. especially I have been worried about the bombing in Lebanon lately.
My coach tell me to stop worrying – but I can’t help to think that the world as we know it is going to be a different place in 20 years time, when my daugther is partly grown up…
adding to that, it is (fortunatly) not common to think about death all the time…
I guess most of the time, you just breathe in, and breathe out, and “the beat goes on!”…
that was the scribbles from Denmark – I will see you soon !