my thoughts are with you mirza...
one of the board members i'm working with this summer is pulling her husband off from life support today. it's the most tragic thing and she's the sweetest, sunniest person i know on the board.
it's crazy to think - i mean, we all know it - but to realize that life is really this short. her husband was riding his bike with their little girl and fell off of it and hit his head in the wrong spot. had enough perserverance to get up, take his daughter home and call his wife. by the time they got to the hospital, he had full brain damage and today, two days later, they are taking him off of life support. they are holding services for him this sunday. he was to start his new job on monday.
it's so tragic, it breaks my heart just thinking about what she must be going through right now. it must have been such an ordinary day and an ordinary moment until he fell.
it makes a lot of things we worry about feel so trivial and it makes me scared to death to think that something can happen to one of my loved ones at any moment. but my boyfriend is right - you can't go through life worrying about if and when these things can happen. the only thing you can do is live each day of your life to its fullest - the way you want to live it, to treat people well and to surround yourself with those who love you and whom you love. and to know that if and when that moment were to come, you'd have no regrets about how you've lived as a person...
posted by tatertot @ 3:31 PM
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Incidents and moments like these definitely touches everyone's life around them and that includes me today. Its also like a reminder for us to cherish each moment we have and live life to its fullest as well. My thoughts are with your friend's husband as well.
That is heartbreaking... but maybe it would help to focus on the fact that this man lived long enough to have loving a wife and family, and also had the time to do things like bicycle with his daughter.
You never know when the end comes. Even if you are young and healthy, there are crazy accidents that you may never be able to prevent, and you can't waste time worrying too much about those things when you could be enjoying what is all around you. --btw you seem to do a good job of living life to its fullest anyway!
That's why it's important to enjoy even the ordinary moments and the brief time you have with those you care about.
On the practical side, that's also why everyone should get health insurance and especially if people have children, life insurance too!!
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