My Xmas won't be merry this year
Dec. 22nd, 2009 04:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckaloonieA friend of mine just died. We weren't extremely close, but she was still my friend and I just can't believe it.
She was 34, had two little daughters (5 and 3 years old) and died of a stroke. She wasn't sick or anything, she just had a stroke and died.
The saddest part is, she was going to quit her job on February so she could spend more time with her daughters. Now she won't be able to, and she won't be able to show them that they were always more important than her job, than anything in her life, and the girls won't have enough memories to remember her by.
We all know that every day could be our last, but we don't seem to believe it, because we keep living as if we have all of our lives ahead of us. We keep procrastinating, we keep surviving, instead of actually living.
It's not even about accomplishing great things, or saving lives, or changing the world. It's about knowing that we're doing the best we can, being the happiest we're able to be, giving everything we've got. It's about having no regrets, so if death decides to come sooner than we expect it, we would at least know that any number of years we were given, they were lived at their fullest.
I hope you all have the most incredible holidays of your lives, that you're happy and healthy and surrounded by the people you love.
She was 34, had two little daughters (5 and 3 years old) and died of a stroke. She wasn't sick or anything, she just had a stroke and died.
The saddest part is, she was going to quit her job on February so she could spend more time with her daughters. Now she won't be able to, and she won't be able to show them that they were always more important than her job, than anything in her life, and the girls won't have enough memories to remember her by.
We all know that every day could be our last, but we don't seem to believe it, because we keep living as if we have all of our lives ahead of us. We keep procrastinating, we keep surviving, instead of actually living.
It's not even about accomplishing great things, or saving lives, or changing the world. It's about knowing that we're doing the best we can, being the happiest we're able to be, giving everything we've got. It's about having no regrets, so if death decides to come sooner than we expect it, we would at least know that any number of years we were given, they were lived at their fullest.
I hope you all have the most incredible holidays of your lives, that you're happy and healthy and surrounded by the people you love.
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Date: 2009-12-22 11:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-12-23 09:09 am (UTC)