As mentioned on my Monday post (Stay or leave?), I had 3 casual convo with 3 different people which I find interesting to share.
Me: How are you doing?
JH: Not good. *looked upset*
Me: What happened? *worried*
JH: My friend just passed away yesterday.
Me: Oh, I'm really sorry to hear this.
JH: You know I feel more sad because we didn't expect it. She just went for a very simple operation, the type which you could be discharged on the same day. And she's still so young, just 46. She said she had a lot she wanted to do. Now she could not even accomplish them anymore.
I didn't know how to comfort her. It's rather difficult to console someone not to be sad if the person has lost their loved ones, in this case, JH has lost her dear friend. No one likes to experience this. Death is a natural phenomenon, no one can escape. One day we'll have to face it and the question is we don't know when is it. Yet, we like to turn ourselves away
Do we ever think about "if today were the last day of my life"? Is this pessimism not? Well what if today is the actual last day? If we have never thought about it and leave many things undone because we always think that "It's ok, I still have tomorrow." But with this little thought in mind, it does remind us in trying to live the fullest each day, so that even if it's really the end of the life, we won't be regretful.
This though also makes me appreciate people more. I always not being bothered in keeping contact to friends distantly away from me or to people I assume I'll be seeing people I see everyday. Just like JH, she would never ever thought that her last catch up with her deceased friend is really the last time she saw her in this life.
Ok, enough of this topic that may sounds a bit grieving. Not meant it that way. I'll leave here with an excellent speech by Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios) delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford. He mentioned this line in his speech, "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.". Click here to read the speech. For audio version if you have an IPOD, please click here. 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says. Whenever I'm thirsting for inspiration, I'll go back to this article. *grin*
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