In Passing
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
We ended the year with a sad death in the family last year—my father in law died of cancer Dec 11th—so it’s hard to sit here and be witty or have anything pity to say about the start of a new year and what it might hold other than to say, I want to do more.
I no longer feel like I have time to hang around treading water letting days slip by. My sense of mortality has been shaken. A death has the ability to make you reconsider just how much time we all have left on this little blue marble. Throw in all that’s going on in the world right now, and you realise life is finite.
I have one New Year’s resolution this year and that is to be more present in my own life, do more, read more, go out and about more. Take bigger bites of what life has to offer and not shrink back waiting for others or, in fact, myself to decide where I can go, or what I can do. Because, quite simply, life is too short.
See you out there.