Have you ever had a good friend pass away and then
thought about all the times you had wanted to call them or visit them, but
never got around to having enough time?
It seems that we all have failed to plan for things within our lives
that should be given more priority until it is too late.
Then they are gone and all we do is think about the times
past and what we had done or said and how wonderful it would have been to visit
them one more time before they were gone.
If you have ever felt that way, and I’m sure you have at one time or
another, why not begin to think about those who are still with us NOW and not
have to feel that way about them at a later date.
Life it just seems is too short for us to get anything
done. When we are younger we always feel
that there will always be enough time so why worry about it now. We also feel that we are invincible and that
nothing bad is going to happen to us.
Before we are aware of it the years begin rolling past so quickly that
they are almost like a blur before our eyes and then we are on “the downhill
side” of life and barely have enough time to get the daily necessities taken
care of before the next day is upon us.
We can complain all we want about life not being
fair. About it seeming that “all the
good ones” are taken too quickly.
However, we don’t know when some accident or other event beyond our
control is going to happen. We don’t
understand why some of us get the sicknesses we do or why others just seem to “fall
apart” before our eyes!
What we do know is that the time swiftly passes by and we
are making excuses for ourselves and why we never did the things we should have
been doing all those years before theses years of regret have reached us. Remember there’s no better time to tell
someone how you feel about them than NOW!
You may not have the chance to do it later.
This hit home to me so well some years back when I was
delivering commercial supplies for a company.
Every week I would stop at this little bar/lounge in town and the old
couple who owned it was always giving each other a hard time with their
comments. After several years I came in
one day and the wife was not there only the husband. I inquired of him how he could let her have a
day off during the week. Those had
always been there together. His reply
was: “She invited her relatives for a visit this week-end and I told her she
had to stay home and clean the house.”
The very NEXT week when I visited, she was there and he
was not. So I inquired: “So, you took off last week and now he felt
like HE should have a day off too!”
Her reply came back sadly: “He died!”
Of course, I felt very ashamed about my comment. But it goes to show you never know what is
going to happen from day to day.
We need to seize the moments within our lives and make
the most of them that we can. We never know
when those precious moments may be the last ones we have.
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"If you love someone, tell them.
You will never have this moment again."
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