Life is Short--Enjoy it While You Can

I know the topic of this blog sounds rather morbid, but the truth in since I last posted I have lost several good friends, mostly to cancer. It makes you stop and think about how precious life really is, especially when it comes to your relationships with your friends. All of us only have a limited time on this Earth, and we need to make the most of it. This short time begins from the time we are born and will continue as long as our lives continue.

What brought on all these thoughts of immortality? As I said, I lost friends to cancer, a terrible disease for which we still don't have a cure. Even worse I recently lost a writer friend for what appears to be no apparent reason. He was a good person who helped everyone and often went out of his way to help not only other writers but many others in the creatives arts industry: writing, art, music and much more. His death was unexpected and to those of us who knew him, shocking. Why did this happen to such a good and loving person? It's a question to which we will never have an answer--that is for certain.

Unfortunately, many of us don't stop and think about how short our time is here, and we live in our fast-based world without taking time to enjoy the things that are important to others. How many times have you failed to pick up the telephone and call a friend because you are too busy? I remember thinking that a few years ago when I lost my sister. I was busy with so much at the time, and my sister could keep talking for hours even after you tried to say "goodbye," so I just stayed away as much as possible. Now I wish I could hear her voice again.

I guess the point I am trying to make here is not to let life get in the way of spending time with friends and family. Take some time for those things that are important to you because they may not be there the next day--or even the next hour. Things change too quickly, and once those things slip away from us through death, there is no way to bring them back.