Re: What would you do if you could only hear for one more month | |
My docs told me when I was 27 that I would be blind by the time I was 30. After spending three days in bed feeling sorry for myself, I picked myself up and restarted my life - and looked into every alternative treatment I could find.
In the end, I meditated. Call me a flake and call it a coincidence, I don't care. But the progression of the disease stopped. I lost half the vision in my left eye and have continuing problems with my right. But I can see.
I coached little league, basketball, and soccer. I got involved with my kids and my wife. I found the things in life that pleasured me most (some of which I can't mention here) and I pursued them. I finished my college degree and embarked on a career that I felt I could make a difference with.
21 years later, I can still see and I have the cherished memories of the things I did because of the "impending sentence" I was given. If you guys are going to take a lesson out of this story - it's not about what you would do if you thought you were going to lose something - it's what you do while you have everything. Live now like something is going to disappear.
Because someday, something will disappear and you don't want to live with that many regrets. Hell, even after what I went through I have many regrets, but I think the fear of the loss I was facing has allowed me to have a more rewarding life.
In the end, go for it. You truly do have everything to lose - but you also have everything to gain. Focus on the gains.
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