Sometime ago (okay only a week or two ago but some time ago sounds better ;p) i was watching this drama about a true story. The drama was called –I think- The Final Journey. The story was that a father got a severe debilitating disease –memory fails me as to which one. He couldn’t move, speak- anything. He just spent his time in his wheelchair and watched. at the start he dies.
How ever his wife, Dr. Anne Turner (Julie Walters), is left behind. she knows how much he suffers and when she finds out that she has the same disease it leaves her distraught. She decides to go to a suicide clinic with her family to die so that she wouldn’t suffer in the same way. Unfortunately it is a true story. The drama centralizes on her suffering and the rights and wrongs of suicide clinics, however this is not what this post is about.
The Doctor and her husband had planned all sorts for their retirement. a retirement which was cruelly snatched from their grip. we’ve just got to realize that actually very little is in our control and that things probably won’t turn out the way we plan them. Who knows what’s around the corner? All i know is that to be happy you’ve got to take every opportunity that presents itself to you because then you will know you have lived your life to it’s maximum capacity. No regrets is another one – when do we know if things will be cut short? We don’t. if you have a regret sort it out and then you will be happy. In short: live!
Matthew
