Today, I was opportune to meet an elderly lady. I am going to give a brief story and I employ you to give me your thoughts.
To all she is known as a loving woman;angel on earth; dear friend and disciplinarian. But this elderly 80 old woman still had a lot of people whose life she had impacted without realizing it. She was brought up in a little village in the Western part of Africa. School at her time was not common especially to the women at the time. Striven, she got into nursing school and graduated. After marriage her husband decided to move to the States for greener pastures. She moved along no knowing what or how she was going to go through life. Shortly after arriving she started nursing school again from the beginning. Taking a loan the economic times were so hard. Devastated by the pressures, Her husband asked for a divorce and left her. As if that wasn't enough she was diagnosed with cancer the weeks following. After barely escaping cancer, her children had one issue or another with school or friends but some how she seemed to always get through it all. The eve of her Th birthday, after a busy day a car comes in from no where and she gets hit. By the time she regains her consciousness she is in a n ambulance that happens to be passing by. She said in her speech that the celebration of life could have equally been her funeral.
How do you treat life? Do you realize that each day can be your last... If so what would you want to be remembered for.
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