Nothing can put everything in perspective as strongly as a friend telling you he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer that has metastasized to all his organs. He has six months to live maximum. What do you say to something to that?
This all happened to him within one month!! He had a physical last month and everything was fine. The melanoma took over his body only within one month! Yes, life can indeed change that fast.
He goes on for more than half an hour getting into details about what is going on, and do you know when was the one and only time he got emotional? When he was talking about his ex-wife, who he went through a 5-year horrible contentious divorce with, came to the oncologist with him and hugged him and told him "I LOVE YOU."
It's good to have money. It's nice to drive a fancy car and dress in fashionable clothes. It's wonderful to be successful. But with all this, you ain't nothing, if you are not affectionate, loving, caring, and attentive to your husband or wife, your children, your parents.
Go make peace, speak softly, hug and kiss as if your very life depended on it. You never know how everything might change the next month, or tomorrow.
Hate and regret can be more cancerous than cancer.
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