ONE IMPORTANT THING MOST OF US IGNORE IN LIFE

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One of the most vital things most of us ignore in this life is lack of showing love to our family members ( parents, siblings, cousins, niece, nephew etc). Come to think of it- how many times do you tell your father that you love him? But we keep on telling our boyfriends/ girlfriends how much we love them and how we can't live without them.
I have worked as a practicing palliative student nurse and have seen and witnessed situations where patients during their last minutes on earth crying for a second chance just to be with their family. I once overhead one patient thinking out loud on his dying bed that “how possible had he been raised by such an emotionally generous mother and father and yet he lived his life so focused on himself? He kept on asking himself why he had never told his father that he loved him? Or truly shown the depth of caring for his mother?
One of the hardest experience or pill to swallow in this life is to lose an experience that you can't have back. One Palliative care nurse and author Bronnie Ware once wrote extensively on the most common regrets that her terminally ill patients expressed in their final weeks of life. Facing the ultimate, these patients were able to look back on their lives with a clarity that escapes those of us absorbed in our daily grind. They spoke of the pain of not having lived a life true to themselves, the regret at having focused so obsessively on their work, and the realization that it's the people in your life who give it true meaning, None of these people looked hack on their lives wishing they had worked harder, but many of them found themselves wishing they had spent more time with the ones they loved. "It all comes down to love and relationships in the end."
So, we should all strive as much as possible to show love to our family and friends while there are all alive because a moment lost today won't be given back again.