I Just Lost My Little sister Yesterday Morning, Due to Cancer
My realization about life
I was scrolling through my Instagram feeds yesterday and I came across a very touching video about life and death. Under the video, I saw a comment that melted my heart.
“I just lost my little sister yesterday morning due to cancer after a long-fought battle and I know it isn’t a coincidence for me to come across this video. It’s so hard and I know my emotions will be like a never-ending roller coaster.
One minute I’m doing okay and the next minute I'm breaking down and crying. I’m trying my best to stay strong because, no matter what happens to us in this lifetime, life does not stop for you. Life doesn’t stop for anyone at all.
I guess it brings me a little bit of peace knowing that my sister is no longer suffering and in pain. She’s now running through beautiful fields filled with so many flowers; she’s up in paradise, watching over us. She lived a short but beautiful seven-year life. Oh, my little Haley.
I'll see you again once God decides my time here is done. Forever 7”
My realization about life
After reading this comment, I came to realize something about life.
We are going to lose everyone who will love this life. Mom, dad, brother, sister, pets, friends, and even relatives. It’s going to happen. You’re going to lose money and at the same time, people are still going to hurt you, even though you didn’t even know what you did wrong.
Things like this are going to happen in this lifetime. To wait for better times to come when the world will be completely at peace and you can walk peacefully over the street, never having the fear that somebody is going to come and do something to you.
It’s not going to happen. Because the world is just the way it is.
But knowing this, it’s like preparing yourself and learning the right or useful ways to develop yourself physically and mentally to be able to walk through this lifetime.
It’s just that we need to get rid of those fantasies that better times are going to come.
If we don’t create better times, nothing is going to happen.
So couples, when you are fighting, just remember that you only have so much time to love each other that one of these days you’re going to have to say goodbye.
In funeral after funeral after funeral, nobody says “I wish we would have fought more,” I’ve never heard a wife from the grave scream, “underwear on the floor!! you gotta pick it up james” Never!
I remember when we buried my grandfather. I stood with my grandmother over his casket and she looked at me and said, “I’m so sorry,” and I said, “For what, grandma?” And she said, “I was so critical of him” “while he was alive."
“And I miss him terribly now that he’s dead.”
And she said this: “I wish I could say I was sorry."
That’s pretty real.
You know what she was sorry for? She was sorry for all the time and all the moments she killed.
So guys, permit me to ask these questions.
- What would you do if you just learned today that you only had six (6) months to live?
- What would you stop doing?
- What would you like to do more of?
- Who would you spend time with?
Now for me, the answer to that question is straightforward; what it tells me is about the things I really value and things that are really important to me.
What I have found out about life is that self-esteem, satisfaction, and happiness in life come from getting your goals and your activities congruent with your values, your priorities, and what you consider to be really important to you.
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