Time is Relative

Today is a travel day for me. I have left my orphaned wife alone with our animal family back in Florida while I travel home to take care of our real estate business. I'm in Charlotte waiting for my connecting flight back to Minneapolis. This airport is always busy! I have been here at 10 PM on a Friday night. Busy. Today, the holiday Sunday before Memorial Day. Busy. And try finding an electrical outlet! As I write this, I am sitting in the main hallway, on the floor, people and their bags rushing by. Whoa, someone just hopped over my right leg, bag swerving perilously close to tipping, as he races toward his connecting flight. He never even broke stride! Anyway, I sat next to a gentleman who will also be relocating to Florida soon. No wife, no home, few obligations. I never did ask his name. But this forty year old has a completely different concept of time than I. He can afford to make a mistake, to take a chance, to try something new. On the other had, I stress over every minute of precious time. We are all living on borrowed time. Our lives are finite. Yet following my cancer diagnosis my time feels more finite than before. Even though I am doing fine for now, I know the cancer will come back. I spend an entire chapter of my book, Living with Multiple Myeloma, musing at length about the topic. Cancer patients are supposed to avoid stress. Yet at the same time we are supposed to live every moment like it is our last... To not waste a minute. Doesn't that cause stress? It does for me! Sometimes I get stressed when I start to get stressed trying not to get stressed! Guess all we can do is try to keep our sense of humor and not take life too seriously. While not waisting a minute. Does that mean frivolous play and rest is a waste of time? Or is that part of what is really important in life? Oh well, I hear my boarding announcement, off in the distance far down the hall because the only available outlet in the airport was so far away, so I had better sign-off. Sorry to leave you with so many important, unanswered questions. When you discover the answers, let me know and we will all be rich!
Feel good, keep smiling and enjoy the Memorial Day Weekend (hopefully with friends and family) because, after all, you don't want to waist a minute of your precious, finite life!