While I was off work a couple of weeks ago, I watched About Time, the Richard Curtis film about time travel. It's a romantic Richard Curtis film (aren't they all) but it's got beautiful message at the end about even if you could travel back in time and live every day again, would you, or would you not just live every day like you could travel back and live it again, but get it right the first time. It was a symbol just to remind me about how I should make the most of every single day.
My dad taught me this years ago, it’s the thing about waking up in the morning and thinking, ‘Oh, brilliant, I get another go again today’. I remember you teaching me that, Dad!
And then I look around, and the symbols are everywhere.
Louis Dunne gave me a podcast to listen to if you're interested in following the message of the podcast. The episode is called ‘Vic’s story – #bemoreVic’. It's about a young female triathlete who was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in February of this year and died by the start of April.
The podcast was produced by her then boyfriend, who quickly became her husband, and then her widower. That is very touching, but another symbol. How you're supposed to enjoy all of these good bits every single day as much as you can and to push the other bits of first-world sh*te out of the way as fast as possible. It seems easier said than done, but it's actually when you get into the practise, much easier done than said.
I have a picture in my office to help me do this; it sits on the right side of my desk. If you're ever in and around our place, come and see me and come and see my office; every single thing is a thing of significance, but none more significant than this. It's a beautiful blown-up picture of a rose from my garden in July 2022 (hard to believe it's three years ago). I was worried that someone very close to me was unwell, significantly unwell, and as they went to the hospital to have an appointment to see if they were unwell or not, I was in my back garden. The roses looked beautiful that day; I had never really noticed them in my garden before. I photographed it, and I thought, by the time I see them again, my life could be very different.
I was really lucky that day, as I am almost every day, that everything was well and fine, but every time I look at the rose in my office, it reminds me to make the most of what I have right now.
Symbols act in reverse also. When the proverbial shit hits the proverbial fan, sometimes the symbol allows you the opportunity to say, ‘that is not something to focus my anxiety or my attention or my energy on, it'll be over in a minute, and I'll be back to the good things. ’
Like I said above, easier said than done? With a little bit of thought easier done than said!
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