It's Time To Make Time For Those Who Matter

Today I spent about 2 hours clearing out old emails from 2021. Among those emails was an exchange between me and one of my friends from when I was living in California a few years before this exchange.

What made this exchange important was that it was about the passing of her ex-husband, her teen daughter's dad at a fairly young age.

I know that I have lost a lot of people from the time I was 33 when two people that I knew - not friends, but acquaintances, one from my college years, passed away suddenly. The acquaintance from college had a wife who was 6 months pregnant at the time of his death.

We, humans, are so busy doing crap all the time, we rarely take time to truly invest in the people in our lives. Often, we make excuses as to why we can't find the time to meet up, and in the end, when they are suddenly no longer among the living we are left wondering how this happened.

We need to be present for our friends and family more than ever these days. People are feeling so stressed out over all the health propaganda, and all the wars that our incapable President is working so hard to get us involved in (really the people who are operating behind the scenes), not to mention the mess with the Western economies all around the world, and the ongoing issues of the environment, over medication especially of our youth, and the very poor food supply in the US and the Western nations.

I would firmly suggest that you take the time to get in touch with someone who is ALWAYS on your mind and yet you never take the time to call or to email, or text (whatever is the manner in which that person will definitely know that you reached out to them.)

I also firmly suggest that you tell the people in your life how much you love and care for them NOW because it is a bit late once they have passed away from some health issue or accident. One of the people I was referring to died in a freak accident as she was water skiing the machine fell over on her and caused her death. The other died of a brain aneurysm.

I would also make the time to be eye-to-eye and heart-to-heart with those whom you claim you love and enjoy being with because we know from the studies done by those in the blue zones - those who live the longest, it is the quality of our relationships that has the largest impact on our health and our length of life. So, it's a great investment to make in yourself as well.