My wish for you

[Naleena]

Last night I sat at the bedside of a tiny baby girl. With one finger, I held her little hand as she laid there slowly dying. With all the tubes and lines coming out from her little body and with death close by, she held onto life.

As I watched her breathing, I thought about how this baby girl would never have the opportunity to experience life. She would never know what cotton candy tasted like or how it melts in your mouth. She would never have a boy pull her hair or a friend to keep her secrets.
She would never know the feeling of mud between her toes, the smell of her mothers cooking or the comfort of having daddy keep her safe from the monsters in the closet. She would never fail, she would never know loss and she would never fall in love. What a waste, I thought. And I realized something. How many times do we waste life because we are too afraid to live it? We have these opportunities that we don't take because we let things keep us down.

I know some of you have it very hard. You come here and want answers to why things are the way they are. You have known rejection. You have known fear. You have known loss and you have known loneliness. You have taken chances only to have your heart broken. I can't tell you why the world is as it is. I only know that we can't control what happens to us. Life is neutural. It doesn't have rules. It just is. We can however, like the little baby girl, choose to fight till our last breath. We can choose to live and love and experience life- no matter what the outcome will be.

My only wish for you is this, that you find passion and courage to live your life to it's fullest -regardless of what may come.

((((((((((((((((Everyone)))))))))))))))))))))

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benet

 

[Satyr]

Last night I sat at the bedside of a tiny baby girl. With one finger, I held her little hand as she laid there slowly dying. With all the tubes and lines coming out from her little body and with death close by, she held onto life.

It's true, we often forget that the biggest success in life is simply being to able to live long enough to see it. Despite her brief time on the planet, that little girl had a pretty important message for those of us who are still around.

I'm definitely NOT the poster boy for "living life to it's fullest" but I'm doing my best...even though my best is often less than stellar.

Some time ago, I was an email pal with a guy who had terminal cancer. He'd message me every few days from his bed and talk about movies and games. I'd write back and tell him about stuff I'd seen or played. The thing that impressed me about him, was that not once did he ever comment about pain or the fact that he would soon be gone. He was more concerned about how his mother was dealing with things and who was going to take care of his dog.

After a few weeks, I stopped getting messages.

That little girl was lucky to have someone like you there with her. When our time comes, we should all be so fortunate.

 

[Drake]

that was really beautiful Nal, brought tears to my eyes, I guess some times we take our lives for granted. Even if some times life sucks, it can be really great too. Thank you for this post hun *hugs*

 

[Lonesome Crow]

wow..that's wierd . that's the song i was thinking about when i read your story becfore i clicked
on the vedio...

Nalee, you know you can make all my dreams come true...but that's another......