Some weeks ago, during a sharing session with my prayer/meditation group, I mentioned about the discovery of a new lump and my fears of running out of time and not being able to complete the many things that I wanted to do.
My Master said even if I were given 10 more years, I would still not be able to finish all the things I wanted to do.
It's so true. Firstly, it's a fact that we will never be able to accomplish everything that we want to do. Prioritise our tasks and get started on whatever needs to be done first.
Secondly, it's procastination. What needs to be done today should not be put off till tomorrow.
Probably live life like there is no tomorrow. After all, who knows what tomorrow will bring?
When my son was in primary school, I recalled his teacher making him recite a poem about 'tomorrow' for a competition. It's in mandarin and literary translated means 'tomorrow's song'.
明日歌
明日复明日，
明日何其多。
我生待明日，
万事成蹉跎。
世人若被明日累，
春去秋来老将至。
朝看水东流，
暮看日西坠。
百年明日能几何？
请君听我明日歌!
Meaning in mandarin :
明天过去了又有明天，明天真的是那么的多。
如果一辈子等待明天，什么事情都会办不成。
人们如果被明日牵累，春去秋来很快就衰老。
早晨看河水向东流逝，傍晚看太阳向西坠落。
人的一生能有多少个明天？请你听我唱唱《明日歌》。
Given my limited mandarin, a rough translation to english is :
After tomorrow is gone, there will be another tomorrow, in fact, countless tomorrow's.
If we always wait for tomorrow, we will never be able to accomplish anything, or will miss a lot of opportunities.
If we allowed ourselves to fall into the bad habit of the fact that there is always a tomorrow, time will pass very quickly, and in no time, we will realise that we have become old.
It is as though we only spent our mornings watching the rivers flow to the east, and our evenings watching the sun sets in the west.
In our lifetime, how many tomorrows can there be?
2 comments:
Hi friend,
plse allow me to share my observation and understanding of the human mind. I noted that u are preoccupied with fear of cancers, the uniqueness of the human mind is that once we are preoccuppied with certain events of our life, we get what we focussed on. Try to accept the cancer for what it is , not as something to be fearful about. Accept the cancer while doing your therapy. May u be well and happy!
darcy
Thank you for visiting my blog and thanks for your wishes and concern.
I agree with you that I have to accept the cancer for what it is.
I am not exactly preoccupied with fear of cancers. I have been living with some of the lumps for more than a year now and I have accepted them to be part of me.
My fear is more on having my life cut short thus leaving my children without a mum and a lot of stuff uncompleted, which is really an attachment issue. I am currently working on this issue right now and am making progress.
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