About a year and
a half ago, Lauren Hill was just like any other high school senior getting
ready for college. College applications,
SATs and ACTs and the quest for financial aid.
All of it, just like any other high school senior. The stress of finishing her senior year strong,
dates and dances, all of it. She loved
soccer, but evidently liked basketball more because she decided to play
basketball at Mount St. Joseph University.
Several weeks
later as she played a basketball game for her high school team, she experienced
dizziness. She underwent tests to
determine the cause and the tests revealed a tumor. An inoperable tumor.
In an interview
with the Associated Press, she stated, “I’m spreading awareness and also
teaching people how to live in the moment because the next moment’s not
promised. Anything can happen at any
given moment. What matters is right now.”
Hmmm . . .
This nineteen
year old co-founded a nonprofit foundation and helped raise $1.5 million. She continued to be a high school senior. She continued to smile. She continued to live.
To live.
I wrote an
earlier post titled “I Lived!” that spoke about the importance of living in the
moment. I wrote about not leaving
anything to chance. I wrote about the
importance of embracing each moment and fully and completely living in it
because one never knows when that next moment would be taken from us.
It happened to
my son, who nine months ago today (as I write this post on this sunny April 12th
morning), my son walked down a street and was shot in the back and killed by a
stray bullet. It happened to my nephew
as he stood on the shoulder of an icy road and was hit and killed by a car that
hit the same icy patch he had hit earlier.
Two kids who,
moments before, had no worries or cares.
Just being kids.
It has happened
to others, young and old.
There seems to
be an important truth here to consider: life needs to be lived. Each moment needs to be lived. A moment and a life that we . . . you and I .
. . cannot take for granted. Life and
each moment is to be fully and completely lived.
This past
Friday, April 10th, Lauren Hill lost her battle with the tumor that
couldn’t be operated on. And while
Lauren lost her battle, she never gave in to the realization that her life was
ending. She was too busy living.
Too busy with
college. Too busy with studies. Too busy with her family. Too busy with her friends. Too busy with life. Too busy.
A Lesson From A
Life.
A Lesson From
Lauren’s Life: Never to give up, never
to give in, never to quit, never to take anything for granted. To live each day, each moment fully and
completely because as she so eloquently said, “. . . live in the moment because
the next moment’s not promised. Anything
can happen at any given moment. What
matters is right now.” Something to think about . . .
Live Your Life,
and Make A Difference!
To My Readers:
Book Two of the Lives Trilogy, Shattered Lives, is now available in both Kindle and paperback on
Amazon. It can be found at: http://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Lives-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B00UZRP828/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426952407&sr=1-3&keywords=Shattered+Lives%2C+Joseph+Lewis
Book One, Stolen Lives, in both Kindle and
paperback, can be found on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Lives-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B00PKKN6W4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415927661&sr=1-1&keywords=stolen+Lives%2C+Joseph+Lewis
The Prequel, Taking Lives, in both Kindle and
paperback, can be found on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Lives-Joseph-Lewis-ebook/dp/B00MG2JAWE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407974964&sr=8-1&keywords=Taking+Lives%2C+Joseph+Lewis
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