Is It Your Turn Yet?

"Is It Your Turn Yet?"
September 2009

Everyone’s Personal Journey

Right now I am in Chicago visiting my brother-in-law who valiently battled throat cancer and is seemingly, not going to beat the monster as he is now very frail, on oxegen, and is having difficulty summoning the energy to talk.

It is amazing to hear his perspective on this process. He reports never feeling angry about his selected journey and is not afraid of the outcome. Listening to him talk about the journey that each one must go through, and of his own, without negative emotion, but with gratitude for what he had in his life, is inspiring.

We, as many of you, have had too many recent stories of personal journeys similar to this and hearing the strengths of these people, when truly confronted with negative circumstance, is amazing. A good friend of ours had her mother slowly die of Altzheimers. It was through following her long journey with her mother and this woman’s perception of everyone’s journey, which led us to take perspective on what we all must personally go through in our lives.

Life is not predictable. If we see each day we wake up and enjoy life as a blessing, and hold no negative reaction or views of how one’s journey of life should go, we can find peace when the time for ourselves or a member of our family is near its end.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Article Written by Daniel L. Steinke, DDS, MAGD