I really do. I could barely sleep a wink last night. Tossing and turning. Gut wrenching guilt and regret. I am perfectly able bodied. Yet, I haven't walked a single step on my treadmill in over 3 weeks. I am perfectly healthy and yet I don't get my lazy ass up and moving and make the most of every single day of my life. I take everything with which I have been blessed for granted and abuse it. It's shameful. It's a disgrace and I make myself SICK.
I met this beautiful young woman in 2004 - she was the event coordinator at the hotel where my 20th class reunion AND wedding were held that year. Yesterday she went to heaven. And I am SICK. Of myself. I didn't know her well and I won't claim to. I cannot imagine how the people that did know her well feel right now - because I am wrought with sorrow and grief over her passing for some reason. Because she's young? Because she left behind a young daughter? Because I knew her in passing? Or because she was everything I am not and was forced, by cause of a horrible disease, to really seize life by the horns and live it to the fullest extent because she knew she wouldn't have much time here? I don't know why I feel the way I do, honestly. But what I do know is something has GOT to change and I pray that it's not a disease that drives that change in me. God Bless her family, her friends and her soul. Let her courage and strength, beauty and grace be a guide for how we should all live our lives and count our blessings daily.
Thank you for sharing that. It made me cry, but it also made me appreciate her courage and be thankful for all I've got.
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