FabSwingers.com > Forums > The Lounge > Importance...
Importance...
Jump to: Newest in thread
| |||
| |||
 | |||
| |||
| |||
| |||
"I hope those in my life know that they are deeply loved. I lost my dad and it was always a comfort to know he loved me. " That's really beautiful. I think sometimes you really stop and remember how precious life is. It's those little memories. The lullabies of laughter from those who count. The kind words. The times together. I tell my loved ones and friends how much they mean to me. Try and show it frequently. Because I think that's what I want when I'm gone. To have those who I've cared about know I well and truly did. | |||
"I usually go through a phase of "life's to short", tell my friends I love them... And then normal life commitment kicks back in until the next time! " This is exactly me. | |||
| |||
| |||
"I was having a conversation about this recently, the desire to really live after a health scare. How it changes you. Do you show people they're important to you when they are? Are you able to do what's important to you? What really matters to you? That last one is deliberately open. They're all kind of open to interpretation.:D" Have had two health scares in my life ……. First was, quite literally, life changing in all sorts of ways and recovery was several years ……. During that time I went back to uni and left again after completing a couple of delegates that allowed me to change my whole career in my late 30s….. am still in that career and still loving it Second scare was more recent, and after I’d come back to England…… in a dead end job simply because I’d finished my training in another country, but, after this near death experience I jacked it in, took a plunge and applied to a firm here in England to do what I had been doing before……, they took on board that my training was not here, but my skill sets across different countries meant that they wanted me, and am still there today 
Do I appreciate people more? I think no, I have realised that I like my own company and find people and crowds overwhelming, I pushed those close to me away, and those broken relationships still have not been able to heal
What really matters now…… taking each day as it comes, enjoying it, living it (after all, it may be the last one and, at my age, I am definitely a lot closer to my inevitable meeting with the grim reaper). I am now actively doing things that please me, that I have avoided my whole life because society generally considers them inappropriate, perverted, unwise, reckless etc etc.
There are bad days, dark days but, on the whole, am loving life on a way that I haven’t previously | |||
| |||
"I was having a conversation about this recently, the desire to really live after a health scare. How it changes you. Do you show people they're important to you when they are? Are you able to do what's important to you? What really matters to you? That last one is deliberately open. They're all kind of open to interpretation.:D" If we are lucky and live to a good old age 79… that’s about 4,000 weeks in total. The practicalities of adult life… kids, work, mortgages dictates that many of those weeks are used up, the last weeks of life may be restricted by physical mobility… which leave very few for personal pleasures… I try to make the most of those precious weeks | |||
| |||
| |||
| |||
"I have been a carer for family members from the age of 12 so over the years I've experienced loss up close and personal many many times but none of those ever inspired me to live my life because I simply moved on to the next person who needed my help. A combination of things gave me a kick up the arse just before turning 50 and changed my life and my attitude. That new found sense of adventure went over a cliff 18 months ago due to poor personal health and has since crashed and burned with the loss of 3 close family members this year and a friend and colleague of almost 40 years being given just weeks to live. I have lots of life left to live. I just don't have the energy for it. " • Live your life Mr. Bites, you certainly enrich this place I can tell you! | |||
