Action 108 - Find The Good. The media may choose to focus on horrible stories, but that doesn't mean that I have to do the same. I have the power to choose what I consume. And today, I'm choosing something with a positive spin.
A terminally ill teenager given only months to live voiced an unusual regret to a friend last month—that he would never read the final, unpublished novels in Harry Turtledove’s The War That Came Early series. The friend posted a message on the Internet site Reddit, which was spotted by writer Jason M. Hough, who shares a publisher with Turtledove. Thanks to Hough’s efforts, the sick teen received both an advance copy of Turtledove’s next book and a phone call from the author himself. Hough played down his good deed. “I just made a phone call,” he said. “Right place, right time.”
Yes, this teenager is dying. And yes, it makes me sad. But I choose to focus, instead, on the generosity of the author and what a tremendous gift he gave. In a life soon to be cut short, the chance to read a treasured novel long before it's available to anyone else is a simple but meaningful pleasure.
The world is full of good people doing good things. They deserve more of my attention, not less. And they'll get it.
This touched my soul, because we never know when we all will die; but been facing death every day this past year! And some closer to death and dying than others, older and wiser, but still die the death like a thousand screams in the night; will we ever feel complete? Does the washing of regeneration ever end any generations? Will I see my children have children? And when this life ends..... will I really die? Don't want to die, and many think is life and end when I do? Sooner or later we all die, because all life is ever lasting change. I wonder if I will be all I desired to be in this life? Mother, Grandmother, friend ... will I be finished? Will I finish everything I started that? That book, that quilt I started for my son or daughter; or will I be able to finish collecting those recipes for a cookbook I started collecting years ago? Lost and losing all the good with the bad, the sinful with the good and all those simple pleasures in life (like eating a good meal) or just living to have another harvest in our garden? I wonder too how things will end. Will we choose good or evil mission in this life? Will we feel contented and completed this time around?
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