Food for Thought

This came up in a msn conversation a minute ago.
We listened to a man on the radio talking about how his wife had been diagnosed with dementia, he was her carer and slowly she was losing the function to think. all their plans were gone because they had taken their health for granted. it is not permanant.
this is terrible you may think but i can bring you something worse, we agreed that this was an awful situation, we felt sorry for the man yet 3 minutes later we had both forgotten about it. but now this memory cannot be lost, it is written and 10 maybe 15 people will think about it which is nowhere near what this man deserves.
but we can't live our life feeling sorry for others, we must move on, but just for a minute think how lucky you are, even when stuff is going wrong. think.
today is the 21st of february
the time is 00:49

in the last 5 minutes:

in the last 5 minutes someone will have been diagnosed with a terminal disease. that person will have family, maybe 10 members. and friends, maybe 50. over the next week all will realise how precious time is.

in the last 5 minutes someone will have found out they will lose a friend to a terminal illness and will have made someone else sad by being depressed themselves.

in the last 5 minutes someone will have taken their own life

in the last 5 minutes hundreds of people will have died

in the last 5 minutes the dreams of many will have been shattered

in the last 5 minutes a marriage will have been broken

in the last 5 minutes someone will have been killed, murdered

in the last 5 minutes a baby will have been born into a life where it is unwanted and will suffer

in the last 5 minutes someone will have been forgotten

in the last 5 minutes someone will have gone unrewarded and given up

in the last 5 minutes someone will have cried


the link between these, shown in the first, is that all have reverberations all affect many many people.
your problems are nothing compared to these but if you let them affect you they will affect many other people.

in the last 5 minutes something minor will have gone wrong for almost everyone
however
in the next 5 minutes someone will be availible to help

if you are reading this you are lucky, you have wonderful friends who will listen.

in the last 5 minutes many healthy wanted children were born who will provide joy to many around them. they will grow up to be great friends and great people.
in the last 5 minutes someone, somewhere will be happy. i hope in the next 5 minutes it is you.