I just completed a grief and bereavement course last week. It opened my eyes to a different part of the world. I knew how life could be sad for some people and mishaps may happen anytime unbeknownst to the people involved. It was just that we don't meet many of those people and it seemed pretty rare for such things to occur. When they do happen, we would feel sad and question why such things happen, and at times, wonder if it would happen to us too. After several days, we would slowly forget about it and continue our lives as it is.
Working at a hospital gave me the opportunity to see how frail life could be, and how devastating some losses could bring to their loved ones. Attending the course with staff who are directly involved with saving the lives of others and facing deaths everyday brought reality to me. Everyone will die one day, and we never know when it would be our turn. We could be well today and gone the next. So it's good for us to start preparing now, by truly living.
"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
" Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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