Now and the future

A friend’s acquaintance recently passed away from Cancer. His name was Matthew, and he was a smart, nice chap doing software development, just like myself and my friend. The last time I saw him, he looked perfectly fine, so his death came as a surprise, and a wake-up call.

It is so easy to stay immersed in the daily routine of life, and never to take a step back and ask yourself if you are doing the right thing with this time that you have here. It’s even easier to never ask yourself what you want from life, and to simply drift through it, and wake up one day to realise that you didn’t achieve the things you dreamed about.

Now is the best time to take that moment, figure out what you want from life, what you want to achieve with it, but more crucially, to find what really matters. That’s the hardest part.

I’m now going to do three things — one, quite working on things that I don’t think are the best use of my time, two, be more conscious and make an effort to sort out the environmental problems we have, and three, support more Cancer charities so that we put an end to it, before it puts an end to those we love and care for.