Today was the first time I’ve been able to write in the garden now the winters blown away. Next door I could hear two children splashing in the pool, and one of them said, ‘My teddy’s got a sore arm!’ ‘My rabbit’s got cancer,’ said the other. ‘What’s cancer?’… ‘It’s when you get really tired and then you die!’
It is this sort of conversation that can get me thinking. I heard once that those who have popped their clogs but come back again due to some medical miracle often say they saw their entire life flash before them, like some big review going on, and it changed their lives.
But what if you didn’t get to come back and were really disappointed that you hadn't done all those things you dreamed you would do one day… if only I had been courageous enough to have taken that bold step, you may say... the one I feared in case I got it wrong, or it was too difficult or what would everyone think if I really followed my passion!
So we lie there with our body broken from something so catastrophic that it took our physicalness away; and on some lofty cloud we watch a huge widescreen 3DTV… and on it a hologram that stretches from the second of our birth to the moment we die… every single thing that we did and we didn't do, and worst of all what would have happened if only we had taken that bold step into the unknown. What if it showed us even greater things!
What if it showed us the life review of the entire universe; one stretching from the big bang, all that matter exploding from apparently nothing into being… that eventually gravitated into stars and suns and planets that had a life of their own, before they died too; exploding into trillions of elements that eventually made up this place we call earth.
Then over millions of years our earth created it’s unique aquatic life forms that eventually popped their gills above the surface, crawling onto dry land and becoming ever more complex. Eventually reptiles and mammals then us… humans that began thinking and creating and rebuilding our wonderful planet – taming it so we could sit in comfort on a Saturday night, curled up snug on a sofa with our loved one; eating curry and chips, and watching the X-Factor!
Evolution! Isn’t it a great concept!
I think from that simple utterance by Holly, the little girl next door talking about her bunny getting tired all the time because it’s got cancer, has made me think perhaps I should do even more towards all those things I’m passionate about, those I only imagine myself doing, and begin to actually do them without delay!
© Simon Lawrence
Follow this link to download a sample or buy Simon's book
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/many-faces/id946547893
It is this sort of conversation that can get me thinking. I heard once that those who have popped their clogs but come back again due to some medical miracle often say they saw their entire life flash before them, like some big review going on, and it changed their lives.
But what if you didn’t get to come back and were really disappointed that you hadn't done all those things you dreamed you would do one day… if only I had been courageous enough to have taken that bold step, you may say... the one I feared in case I got it wrong, or it was too difficult or what would everyone think if I really followed my passion!
So we lie there with our body broken from something so catastrophic that it took our physicalness away; and on some lofty cloud we watch a huge widescreen 3DTV… and on it a hologram that stretches from the second of our birth to the moment we die… every single thing that we did and we didn't do, and worst of all what would have happened if only we had taken that bold step into the unknown. What if it showed us even greater things!
What if it showed us the life review of the entire universe; one stretching from the big bang, all that matter exploding from apparently nothing into being… that eventually gravitated into stars and suns and planets that had a life of their own, before they died too; exploding into trillions of elements that eventually made up this place we call earth.
Then over millions of years our earth created it’s unique aquatic life forms that eventually popped their gills above the surface, crawling onto dry land and becoming ever more complex. Eventually reptiles and mammals then us… humans that began thinking and creating and rebuilding our wonderful planet – taming it so we could sit in comfort on a Saturday night, curled up snug on a sofa with our loved one; eating curry and chips, and watching the X-Factor!
Evolution! Isn’t it a great concept!
I think from that simple utterance by Holly, the little girl next door talking about her bunny getting tired all the time because it’s got cancer, has made me think perhaps I should do even more towards all those things I’m passionate about, those I only imagine myself doing, and begin to actually do them without delay!
© Simon Lawrence
Follow this link to download a sample or buy Simon's book
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/many-faces/id946547893