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Do You Take/Make Time to Do What/Be With Who You Love?
Life is too short not to do what/be with who you love.
Not to be morbid — but you never know how long you have here.
Life in the meatsuits we each occupy is finite. These bodies have — ideally — about 80 years of active life.
That is, unfortunately, the ideal. The reality is that we might — for numerous reasons outside our control — have far less time.
In the past 6 months, I’ve lost 2 friends to cancer, know at least 2 others currently battling cancer and a relative we know we will lose to cancer soon.
This sucks on every level.
That’s one outside-your-control factor. You could also be hit by a car crossing a street, get sick with another illness, or be in the wrong place at the wrong time during a mass shooting, I don’t know the odds — but I do know that you can’t know when you will cease to be in this body and related consciousness.
I’m sorry if that’s depressing — that’s not my point. My point is this — knowing time is finite and limited, are you doing what you love? Are you spending time with those you love?
If not now — why not now? Why are we all so hell-bent on unimportant minutia over living here and now, and doing what we…
