Time
What does the concept of time mean? It seems to me that it varies in accordance to what is relative to us at any given moment.Today I found out that someone I know has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and has been given the time frame of 4 to 6 months to live. Has she been given a life sentence of 4 to 6 months ..... hopefully so and I wonder at what she'll do with her time now knowing what she knows. She's made the choice to not pursue treatments which would extend her life, but frankly at the age of 76 she still seems so young and vibrant.
I think to myself, what would I do in that time frame and hopefully I'd spend the time in a valuable way. It makes me think of the time that I simply let pass me by now .... why is this time less valuable? Its something I need to ponder.
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I'm sorry to hear about your friend...
In a case like this, I'm sure time flies so quickly for them. I have a cousin sister who was diagnosed with lung cancer and for the last 8 months, she moved from New Zealand to Oz so she could spend her quality time with her one and only daughter and her sisters. She planned out her own funeral as well as her daughter's 21st birthday which falls a month after she passed. We talked on skype many times. I think during this time, the only thing that goes through the person's mind is how much he or she can spend time with their loved ones.
I don't know how someone can cope getting news like this.
All I know for sure is,
The more you need it the less of it you seem to have.
live every day as if it was your last and still create a beter future. love the time you do have. make a positive impact for as many people as you can.
A wise (perhaps the wisest of them all) man once said: "A life lived unexamined, is not worth living"
Every human being at some point wishes to take back time! I believe it is called regret.
As for taking time back ie. regret, perhaps that is something that we can all relate to at certain points, but I also think that each of us does the best with what we know at the time until we learn another way.