Thursday, May 8, 2008

How much time do you have left?

Who knows?

But on my way home tonight, I thought about this clip (read the explanation as well, it's quite amazing in itself)

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/pedestrian.asp

Imagine if you were that pedestrian. Like, even though he survived, I'm sure he isn't physically the same as he was beforehand. I mean, pronounced DEAD on the scene? it's got to be pretty serious if the paramedics are going to resort to that...
So now that he's out of the hospital, what's going to happen to poor Scott? What were his dreams for life? was he hoping to do something great with his life? Did he have dreams to pursue? Did he have a family? Did he have a job?
As soon as that one accident happened, his life would never, ever be the same again. He's going to have to cope with fear every time he walks across a street. He's going to have to live with some sort of a physical disability. And will that get in the way of his dreams?

You bet it will.

So why do we put things off? Why do we say to ourselves, "oh, I'll get around to that someday..."

How can you know that you won't be hit by a car, struck by lightning, ingest poison, be murdered, die of a medical condition, become handicapped, develop a learning disability, lose your vision, lose your hearing, be attacked, have an allergic reaction, get an infection, or anything else that I haven't listed?

Don't put things off. You're living now, so LIVE!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Carpe Diem