Last evening I watched the final episode of ER - the popular medical show airing for the past 15 years on NBC.

But I felt like I was tuning into reality programming based on my life at the moment rather than a fictional drama.

For the past three weeks I’ve been in and out of various hospital emergency rooms with family members. It’s ridiculous how quickly life can change. It’s amazing how quickly your perception of life can change.

When someone close to you becomes ill, you are suddenly faced with imagining life without that person. It scares you, but it also opens your eyes completely to how important living life to the fullest is. You never know when your time is going to run out.

I’ve always been one to express my emotions at the moment I feel them, but now I’m making absolutely sure I show the important people how much I care.

It sounds cliche and we’ve all heard it a million times, but it is important to take a little time out to show someone how much you care about them. Make their favourite meal, surprise them with a little gift, take care of them when they need you the most, give out a great compliment, say ‘i love you’ a lot (if it’s the truth), etc. etc. etc. It doesn’t have to take a lot of effort.

It will make you feel better. It will make that other person feel better. And one day if you wake up and realize that you may lose that person (which unfortunately will inevitably happen), you won’t look back and wish you had done things differently.

Do it.

L x

P.S. The final episode of ER was fairly lack-lustre. I haven’t watched the show in ages, but I was hoping for a bit more drama. The hour-long re-cap of episodes throughout the years was way better than the actual final episode.

C’est la vie.

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