You Can Take Life for Granted

October 20, 2009 by admin

You can take Life for granted, if you want.

Yesterday, I’ve shared with everyone about Grandma leaving us forever. She has been with me for many years and I’ve introduced her to all of my subscribers since 2004. Well, when the time to leave this world comes, it cannot be prevented because this is part of life – we live and we die.

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But the sad part is, I didn’t see Grandma for almost a month before she passed away – simply because I was ‘busy’ working and being lazy to spare my time with her. When she’s alive and healthy, I always think that I can visit her next week and that’s exactly what I thought a few days back. But right now, we don’t get to go out for an outing anymore. Our relationship is now, slightly different.

I don’t feel embarrass to say out this truth because I truly want to pass the message to you, right in your face. If you don’t cherish those who you love or love you right now, you will never know what will happen tomorrow.

You know what, probably, nothing’s going to happen.

But why not enjoy the happiness that you can right now?

At the same time, I hope you’re not getting the negative feeling that I’m left feeling regret. That’s not how I felt (although I did in the beginning), it’s just a ‘mixed’ feeling that cannot be explained in words when you lose someone very close to you.

Going to next thing that happened in my business life recently…

I did not back up my hard drive. Yup, it ‘crashed’. Everything there was gone. But here’s the thing - it already shows me some signs that it’s going to crash but I ignore it because I was lazy to do the backing stuff and thought I can do it when I’m ‘free’. The ‘free’ part never come and now, I’m slightly handicap with my business without it.

Other things that happened to me because I was taking Life for granted…

* I missed my high school classmate wedding because I didn’t check the wedding card for the date. There were 2 empty seats reserved for my wife and me in his grand wedding - imagine how I explain to him the next day that I miss out the date.

* I didn’t launch a new course that I was developing because I thought I can launch this anytime - well, a competitor just launched a similar course. So when I launch mine, not only it’ll be harder for me to sell, I’ll probably end looking like copycat.

* Right now, I couldn’t finish my presentation for an upcoming seminar that I’ll be speaking because I thought that I can do this last minute. Honestly, I never thought that Grandma’s going to leave so soon and my hard drive’s going to crash THIS WEEK.

From today onwards, I’ve committed to myself NOT to take things and Life for granted.

Let me ask you…

Are you taking things for granted right now, in your LIFE?

That you think your friends will still be your friends tomorrow?

Your elderly love ones will still be around?

Your spouse will continue to be understanding towards you if you’re always doing things your way?

WILL YOUR DREAMS STILL BE HERE TOMORROW IF YOU KEEP ON DELAYING THEM?

If you want to say, “I love you” to someone, do it now.

If you want to start a business, do it now.

If you want to travel, do it now.

If you want to learn something new, do it now.

If you want to watch your diet, do it now.

If you want to start going to the gym, do it now.

If you want to spend time with your kids, do it now.

If you want to go fishing for God’s sake, do it.

Don’t wait because you’ll never know what will happen tomorrow. If it doesn’t happen tomorrow, it might happen next week, next month or next year. And worse still, you might not even do it at all.

Look at Michael Jackson.

The fact is, there are people who take him for granted. Now, you can be an anti-Michael Jackson and hate me too… but my point of bringing MJ here is not to debate about his lifestyle.

The question is… why appreciating him as a person, his contribution and talent… after he died?

If they want to make him proud and happy, do it when he’s still alive so that he can appreciates it and feel worthwhile for what he has contributed and how he touched millions of life.

I’m not saying that he should not be acknowledged and praised today… he should… but he should be acknowledged and praised when he’s still alive… and dancing and singing, “Heal The World, Make It A Better Place…”.

I guess that’s the problem with how our brain is wired - we tend to appreciate the things that we lose but when they’re in front of us, we take them for granted.

I’ve already make my vow to stop taking things and Life for granted. (Although, once in a while, I might since I’m not perfect. I’m human.)

Are you ready to make yours?

Or are you going to take this for granted as well?

Patric

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