All you said is true. As i have been diagnosed with cancer recently after my 39th birthday, all you said is right. Facing the probability of death is a sudden shockwave, the crumbling down of all your life, leaving you with the realisation that indeed: you should be with your loved ones, you shouldn’t be working so hard, you should be doing something enjoyable, you should love every little moment. It’s the realisation that you’ve done so much and yet, maybe you were lost. And if you have a second chance, would you do it differently ? Do you still have dreams? All that you said, i can only confirm. I wish you a lot of peace and strength in this time.
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Thank you for sharing 🙏 all the best with the current situation! Sending love to all who can receive
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Thank you for sharing. May you find peace, love and comfort! Sending positive vibration to you and your loved ones ❤️
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May The Lord fill your loved one with His peace and may you all feel His gentle but profound Presence. 🙏🕊🙌
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Clayton Olson Coaching
I am face to face with mortality for the first time in a while.
I'm on a trip to support my family through the sudden illness and the possible passing of a loved one.
As human beings, death comes when it wants - sometimes in a season, sometimes in a quick storm.
Death comes as a messenger, asking us to really examine what and how we dwell amongst the living.
Are we doing it right?
Living into our dreams?
With the ones we love?
With the priorities that matter the most?
Life's true impact is felt in the present, not in preparations for death, urging us to focus on being alive and present now.
Bronnie Ware wrote a book about these five regrets of the dying she witnessed in her work in palliative care.
Ware writes of the phenomenal clarity of vision people gain at the end of their lives and how we might learn from their wisdom.
"When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently," she says, "common themes surfaced again and again."
1) "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me."
2) "I wish I hadn't worked so hard."
3) "I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings."
4) "I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends."
5) "I wish I had let myself be happier"
Wouldn't it be sweet to meet the end knowing we did it all - we loved fully, we lived into our most exalted identity, we left nothing unsaid...
Tapping you on the shoulder to plunge into the depths and reach for the heights. Eventually, we all come to the end of this great adventure.
With love,
Clayton
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