Shortly after I was diagnosed with cancer, I became fixated on the fear of dying. And those fears make sense when you first get a diagnosis like that. It’s scary and there are so many unknowns. There were so many tests to be done that might give me an inkling to my fate.
I had always been a super laid back, fun person who all of sudden, had lingering thoughts late at night, lying in bed, worrying about dying. Reflecting back on it, I find it kind of silly because, well, we are all dying. No one knows when their time on this planet is up.
Preoccupation and worry about the future, robs us of what we can do now. And the truth is, the tide is always changing. Fixating on death or any worry doesn’t stop it from happening.
Like Gandalf in Lord of the Rings says, “all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” When we look at it that way, we are focused more on living and what we can do with our time here.
What are you doing with the time you have here?
