Ok I was thinking about this on my drive home. I was listening to an old broadcast of Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell (very cool show on late at night on AM radio, they talk about the paranormal, ufos, bigfoot, conspiracies, aliens, all that cool stuff), and it was a very old broadcast, possibly from 97. The guest who was talking passed away shortly after the broadcast, and sadly took a ton of great information to the grave.
Then I started to think about the host, Art Bell. He recently (very recently, like early march) had his much cherished wife Ramona die in her sleep from asthma. It got me thinking about how humans in general, only start to consciously, seriously cherish someone close to them when they have reason to think they won't have them around for much longer. Now don't read into that the wrong way. I know we all cherish our loved ones, and even in the strongest, closest relationships (any form of relationship, even familial), we at times take the other for granted because we feel they will always be there another day, another week, another month, another year, etc etc. It's nothing bad, it's just part of human nature, untill we are jolted from that false reality with something like getting a knock at your door at 3am that a loved one has been killed in a car accident, or died in a drive bye shooting, or say a husband that is a cop that got shot to death at a random traffic stop. Doesn't matter what it is or the circumstances, i'm just refering to how humans, especially after a long period of time with someone, tend to expect that person to be there for more general expected time.
That all being said, with me hearing Art Bell talk from a show in the fairly distant past, and I now know his beloved wife Ramona dies of asthma in March 06 (quite a while down the road from that broadcast), if I had some way of informing him, or anyone for that matter, to say spend more time with their loved one, because within a fairly soon amount of time, they will be gone from the physical realm, and they won't be able to have them with them anymore, should I do it?
I won't be telling anyone how/if their loved one will die, or when, but just a simple form of "You and so and so won't be able to spend time with each other/have the same life you now have, in the not too distant furture...I recommend you both not take each other for granted now". Or something similar. Would you do that?
Personally if it was me, seeing as how people start to feel comfortable and always expect the other to be there (the term "take for granted" isn't a good choice of words) all the time, I would want to be told I only had a fairly small amount of time left to be with my loved one, in the way I currently enjoy being with them. Like if my brother was going to get hit by a car and be dead in two weeks, or sister gets struck by lightning, it doesn't matter how or even when, just to be reminded to enjoy them as much now as I possibly can and value every second.
Would you want it done for you? Would you do it for others if you had the ability? Time flies while you are here on earth, and we get caught up in the daily living aspect of being human and being alive. I would want to be told, and would do it for others.
Then I started to think about the host, Art Bell. He recently (very recently, like early march) had his much cherished wife Ramona die in her sleep from asthma. It got me thinking about how humans in general, only start to consciously, seriously cherish someone close to them when they have reason to think they won't have them around for much longer. Now don't read into that the wrong way. I know we all cherish our loved ones, and even in the strongest, closest relationships (any form of relationship, even familial), we at times take the other for granted because we feel they will always be there another day, another week, another month, another year, etc etc. It's nothing bad, it's just part of human nature, untill we are jolted from that false reality with something like getting a knock at your door at 3am that a loved one has been killed in a car accident, or died in a drive bye shooting, or say a husband that is a cop that got shot to death at a random traffic stop. Doesn't matter what it is or the circumstances, i'm just refering to how humans, especially after a long period of time with someone, tend to expect that person to be there for more general expected time.
That all being said, with me hearing Art Bell talk from a show in the fairly distant past, and I now know his beloved wife Ramona dies of asthma in March 06 (quite a while down the road from that broadcast), if I had some way of informing him, or anyone for that matter, to say spend more time with their loved one, because within a fairly soon amount of time, they will be gone from the physical realm, and they won't be able to have them with them anymore, should I do it?
I won't be telling anyone how/if their loved one will die, or when, but just a simple form of "You and so and so won't be able to spend time with each other/have the same life you now have, in the not too distant furture...I recommend you both not take each other for granted now". Or something similar. Would you do that?
Personally if it was me, seeing as how people start to feel comfortable and always expect the other to be there (the term "take for granted" isn't a good choice of words) all the time, I would want to be told I only had a fairly small amount of time left to be with my loved one, in the way I currently enjoy being with them. Like if my brother was going to get hit by a car and be dead in two weeks, or sister gets struck by lightning, it doesn't matter how or even when, just to be reminded to enjoy them as much now as I possibly can and value every second.
Would you want it done for you? Would you do it for others if you had the ability? Time flies while you are here on earth, and we get caught up in the daily living aspect of being human and being alive. I would want to be told, and would do it for others.