Life
While on shift at the A & E department last evening, I was involved in a resuscitation of a 25 year man. He had fits while travelling in a public bus and passed out. The five of us(student nurses) took turns in performing CPR(Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation). He didn't make it.
As I stare at the monitor watching his heart rate diminishing, many questions ran through my head. How would his family take it? What has he left uncompleted? Was he on his way to meet his love ones? His family and love ones didn't even have the chance to say goodbye....
Later at night, while watching Grey's Anantomy, there was this young woman who had a pipe pierced through her and another man during a train wreck, they were sitting face to face. Ironically both of them had their life sustained by the pipe temporarily. Her spine was crushed together with her nerves to her lower body, and the man's main artery was severed badly by it. If the pipe was removed, both of them will bleed to death very quickly. After careful examination, the doctors concluded that the young woman's chance of survival was very slim as opposed to the man. It was heart wrenching while the doctors explained the situation to both of them. The woman knew she was not going to make it, and had to make the decision in order to prevent complications to the other man. The tough part, her fiance was on his way to see her from another state. In the end she opted for the procedure to start immediately.
Recently, one of my good friend's brother collasped while jogging. He passed away before any of his family members could see him. He led a frugal life and excelled academically with a honour's degree from UK, he was only 33 and the youngest in the family. Their mother was devastated.
All of the above again reminded me of how transient life is, even though the tv show was fictional. In my opinion, life is not just about money or status, it's how you live it. Ask yourself this, if your life were to end this instance, what are your regrets? Now, since your life isn't going to end as yet, what are you going to do about those regrets?
posted by tidyrojak at 10:34 AM
3 Comments:
hmm... being the believer that i am , i will post you the question.. where will you be when this journey on earth ends?
we might very well know how things will go and where we might be on earth as we live day in and out but are we sure of the 'unknown' then the next journey start?
guess we always know that life is fragile and when we hear of such things happening, we always stop for a moment to reflect about it. i personally feel that people always take life for granted. How then do we live life to the fullest? to some, it means buying their first dream car, to some, it means making their first million dollar and to some, living life to the fullest means doing charity work. as long as we can quantity what living life to the fullest means to us, we are good.
to me, spending time with my loved ones and best friends, going for mani and pedicures, going for yoga and pampering myself with good food will make me happy (yes, it may sound bimbotic but who cares?) work is just one part of our life and i can never understand people who spend 3/4 of their time devoted to work? well, this is not for me to comment as to them, its living their life to the fullest!
your monthly ah long....
che wah Joyah!
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