Some things in life just change your perspective. They aren’t things that you look for. You don’t always go out and seek a reality check – it’s just something that comes as you are walking down the street of life, minding your own business, then reality pulls back her muscled arm and slugs you in the face.
It’s not always a bad thing – sometimes it’s epically good. Great, even.
And sometimes, it’s so painful, the images are burned in your brain. Forever.
A few times this past week, I’m 99.9% sure that I saw someone lying in the street, dead. As in, recently dead. A man, early on a Sunday morning – his motorcycle laid out on one of the major city roads. Today, as I was coming back to my apartment after going to night market, there was a motorbike vendor whose motorbike and cart had somehow tipped – a pair of horrified looking farangs (white people) stood right there, as some paramedics were working on the vendor, lying on the pavement beside the crumpled mess that had been a food cart.
Reality is ugly.
And it can happen fast.
Ever have something terrible happen to you? Your world spins around you, while your feet are glued to the ground. You feel helpless. You see the horror around you, and are incapable of preventing the onslaught. It’s a horrible, terrifying experience.
Ever see it happen to someone else, when everything within you aches to help them, but there is nothing that you can do? You realize that perhaps, you may have had the chance before, but you missed it. You hurt, realizing that perhaps you have failed.
But it’s a reality check.
Life is precious.
We have a limited number of moments to breath. To live. To laugh. To love. To SHARE. To know that we have made an impact in the time that we have.
Each moment is too precious to waste.
You never know when it will be you lying on the ground, expiring. Or, for that matter, when it will be someone you want to share the love of the Father with.
It’s reality.
4 additional thought(s):
I was 18 when I saw a person take their last breath, I was in the room alone, I had worked at the nursing home for a whole 2 wks. Over the next 3 yrs I saw many pass. Sometimes it was very peaceful thing and others not so much. Some I was very close to.
Life is short live it to the fullest. Love with all your heart and remember to tell those around you that you love them....
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Every second counts. Until we have realized this, we take our time together for granted. There is no guarantee that tomorrow will ever come. Make today count. Tell someone you love them.
I think most of us in the backs of our heads keep this in mind..that life is short, don't take anything for granted, every second counts...
But you are right--when something happens to make you realize those things in a way words never could--whether it happens to you or you watch it, it's absolutely a reality check.
Life is precious and such a gift.
xoxo
Agree.
Ephesians 5 said this: Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
And it's so true. The days are numbered and it would be tough to want to catch up with time when it finally catches up with you.
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