Life's too short...
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... to waste it getting drunk or sitting in front of the TV being bored to tears by Eastenders etc, I thought, as I sat in the doctor's surgery waiting to be seen. A heart problem... how uncouth of me to not have posted a thread asking for advice.
While sitting there bored (the usual doctor's surgery magazines just don't do it for me) I started thinking that I ought to make sure I do all the things I want to do (the constraint being money and time). And then I thought that I had pretty much done what I wanted to do... I've told me boss to stick his job so that I could run my own dream business, I've experienced love and marriage, I've driven stupidly quick cars, I've faced my fears (heights via rock climbing); I've even given a lot of time and effort to people who are worse off than me. In the face of uncertainty and death, I felt quite smug.
It seems that these occurrences are quite useful for putting things into perspective although we shouldn't need such things to encourage us to get off our backsides.
So the point of this thread? Make sure you really live your life and don't waste it like so many people do.
While sitting there bored (the usual doctor's surgery magazines just don't do it for me) I started thinking that I ought to make sure I do all the things I want to do (the constraint being money and time). And then I thought that I had pretty much done what I wanted to do... I've told me boss to stick his job so that I could run my own dream business, I've experienced love and marriage, I've driven stupidly quick cars, I've faced my fears (heights via rock climbing); I've even given a lot of time and effort to people who are worse off than me. In the face of uncertainty and death, I felt quite smug.
It seems that these occurrences are quite useful for putting things into perspective although we shouldn't need such things to encourage us to get off our backsides.
So the point of this thread? Make sure you really live your life and don't waste it like so many people do.
Mr POD said:
ShadownINja said:
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While sitting there bored (the usual doctor's surgery magazines just don't do it for me) .
Don't touch the magazines !!! Ill people will have sneezed on them !!! While sitting there bored (the usual doctor's surgery magazines just don't do it for me) .
triggersbroom said:
Absolutely, but somehow things just never go my way and I lose the mindset you are speaking of. This past year has been a nightmare, but before then I shared your optimism. Gone now...
Hope you get your problem sorted... life doesn't have to stop for you with a heart problem
Thanks. Depends if my heart stops or not. Hope you get your problem sorted... life doesn't have to stop for you with a heart problem
Sound a bit worrying but there are many procedures for heart surgery which have successful odds stacked against them. Try and remain positive is the only advice I can give since I am not a doctor and do not know your situation.
A positive mental attitude goes a long way to overall health and wellbeing, and some bird from a James Bond film taught me that
Chin up and good luck
A positive mental attitude goes a long way to overall health and wellbeing, and some bird from a James Bond film taught me that
Chin up and good luck
ShadownINja said:
triggersbroom said:
Absolutely, but somehow things just never go my way and I lose the mindset you are speaking of. This past year has been a nightmare, but before then I shared your optimism. Gone now...
Hope you get your problem sorted... life doesn't have to stop for you with a heart problem
Thanks. Depends if my heart stops or not. Hope you get your problem sorted... life doesn't have to stop for you with a heart problem
Do listen to the Doctors though, they will steer you in the right direction depending on what's wrong.
This sort of summed it up for me, and why I dont really give a s
t half the time (although I do enjoy my life ):
t half the time (although I do enjoy my life ):Puggit said:
An image of the Earth taken by Voyager 1 on 14th February 1990. This is the pale blue dot image. Voyage 1 was at that point 6.4 billion kilometers from the Earth.
Carl Sagan said:
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
Edited by PD9 on Tuesday 17th March 15:36
Shadowninja said:
It seems that these occurrences are quite useful for putting things into perspective although we shouldn't need such things to encourage us to get off our backsides.
So the point of this thread? Make sure you really live your life and don't waste it like so many people do.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack Ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've seen Sea Beams sparkling in the dark by the Tennhauser Gate. All these moments will be lost. Like tears in rain.So the point of this thread? Make sure you really live your life and don't waste it like so many people do.
Edited to add: Absolutely, mate. This is not a dress rehearsal. You have exactly one go at life. Might as well make it the best you can.
Good luck to you - hope all goes well in the health department.
Edited by Don on Tuesday 17th March 15:42
Thanks for the well-wishes, I'm not too worried. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? Oh, wait...
Anyway, I prefer to worry about the things that I know is going to happen. As it's all up in the air until they do further tests, I'll leave it to the experts.
Anyway, I prefer to worry about the things that I know is going to happen. As it's all up in the air until they do further tests, I'll leave it to the experts.
Edited by ShadownINja on Tuesday 17th March 15:45
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