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Dec 26, 2006 1:57 AM CST What's important?
transientmind
transientmindtransientmindTulsa, USA16 Threads 1,252 Posts
If you got the news that you had a terminal illness and no one knew how long you had to live, what would you do with your remaining time? Is it the same list as the things you're putting off today?
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Dec 26, 2006 2:01 AM CST What's important?
adj4u
adj4uadj4unorth central, USA4,943 Posts
live life the same

they are not always right

i have a friend they was gonna die in 3 monthes

that screwed up their life

and they are still alive
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Dec 26, 2006 2:03 AM CST What's important?
adj4u
adj4uadj4unorth central, USA4,943 Posts
that was in 2000
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Dec 26, 2006 2:15 AM CST What's important?
transientmind
transientmindtransientmindTulsa, USA16 Threads 1,252 Posts
True, I'm thinking about what's really important to do in a lifetime. Are there any specific goals like climbing a certain mountain or sky-diving or charity...
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Dec 26, 2006 6:01 AM CST What's important?
Jess642
Jess642Jess642Agnes Water, Australia25 Threads 4,545 Posts
Be present and available in every minute that is given to you,
Share your wealth, (your heart, your mind, your wisdom),
Take the rish and DO the random act of kingness, not just read it of others,
And live each day as if you do have limited time.....
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Dec 26, 2006 6:03 AM CST What's important?
Jess642
Jess642Jess642Agnes Water, Australia25 Threads 4,545 Posts
sorry typo...kinda fits though...
Take the risk and DO the random act of kindness, not just read about it....
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Dec 26, 2006 6:57 AM CST What's important?
dancingfarmer
dancingfarmerdancingfarmerColumbia, Connecticut USA41 Threads 752 Posts
As the country singer Tim McGraw said, "Live like you were dying." My late husband and I went through that. He was sick and got the news he had a week to a month of life. We had been engaged a year then and immediately got married and he started chemo. There were times during our relationship that he was jealous or we'd have minor arguments but after that, he was not. He realized what was important in life. Our relationship had bumps before that but after, nary a one. Our love was able to blossom to full bloom without any petty bickering. We had 11 months of true wedded bliss before he went to walk with God. I live my life for people now. The dishes can sit if the boys want to play a game of darts with me instead. Given the choice of laundry or going dancing or out with a friend, the friend wins every time. The laundry will wait, the person may not be there tomorrow. Yes, my list would be the same, but only because I've learned it the hard way by losing a love.....
angel angel angel
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Dec 26, 2006 7:04 AM CST What's important?
nuala
nualanualadublin, Dublin Ireland12 Threads 6,456 Posts
i agree with all you have written as when i lost my husband to suicide. I realise how things can change drastictally in just a moment. So i learnt how to start livin my life as if its my last day on earth, i also taught my kids the same. I have done most of my dreams the last thing on my list now is a bungee jump but that will happen.......wave

So i am starting a new list of things to do..applause cheering

Remember life is not a dress reshearsal.....angel
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Dec 26, 2006 9:39 AM CST What's important?
denguefever
denguefeverdenguefeverIn the cellar!!!, UK32 Threads 1,204 Posts
Life is too short already.

If you arent living, then you are wasting my air!!!
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Dec 26, 2006 9:46 AM CST What's important?
Mike1162
Mike1162Mike1162Over the Rainbow, Pennsylvania USA70 Threads 1,694 Posts
This is something that I am dealing with in reality. Not an illness perse, but the doctors know that my body is shutting down and that it is just a matter of time now.

What I am doing with the remaining time is trying so very hard to spread the word of hope. Don't live for today, but rather live for tomorrow because what you do today is effecting your tomorrow.

My past has caught up to me and if I can save one person from going through this then I have done good.
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Dec 26, 2006 9:51 AM CST What's important?
RenoPat
RenoPatRenoPatValley of the Sun, Arizona USA11 Threads 665 Posts
Illness or not, do any "really" know how much time we have?confused

Hell, 30 years ago I thought I would be killed by some irate husband..devil

We have been given life, what we do with it is up to us..doh
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Dec 26, 2006 9:54 AM CST What's important?
RenoPat
RenoPatRenoPatValley of the Sun, Arizona USA11 Threads 665 Posts
two bouts with cancer & surgeries, several heart attacks and one heart surgery, many years as a drunk, the 60s, a jungle and several "relationships" grin. I survived (only the good die young). I will live on forever!!devil rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
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Dec 26, 2006 9:58 AM CST What's important?
Mike1162
Mike1162Mike1162Over the Rainbow, Pennsylvania USA70 Threads 1,694 Posts
There's nothing funny about brain damage and that's my story
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Dec 26, 2006 10:01 AM CST What's important?
RenoPat
RenoPatRenoPatValley of the Sun, Arizona USA11 Threads 665 Posts
So true, but any damage I have was created by me. Who else is to blame? I created it, why not laugh at myself?
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Dec 26, 2006 10:08 AM CST What's important?
Mike1162
Mike1162Mike1162Over the Rainbow, Pennsylvania USA70 Threads 1,694 Posts
Yes I have created my own future with the stupid things done in my past. Which is exactly the point I am making.

You and I have to laugh at ourselves just to get us through the day because we have no choice, but the next generation does not have to laugh like we have to laugh now.

The next generation has the power to make a difference.

handshake
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Dec 26, 2006 10:12 AM CST What's important?
RenoPat
RenoPatRenoPatValley of the Sun, Arizona USA11 Threads 665 Posts
"IF" they are smart enough to learn from us..professor But what the hell do old farts know? rolling on the floor laughing handshake cheers
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Dec 26, 2006 10:12 AM CST What's important?
RenoPat
RenoPatRenoPatValley of the Sun, Arizona USA11 Threads 665 Posts
The older I got, the smarter my father became...grin
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