Pouring Our Hearts Out: Six Essential Life Lessons I Had To Learn The Hard Way
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ~C. S. Lewis
I got the phone call on a chilled October night. I had just left the lecture hall at York University in Toronto, lugging my textbooks, mind filled with all the classic worries of a student — financial woes, tests looming, group projects underway, the future as clear as mud, the commute home waiting with its promise of the same old same old. That phone call was perhaps the first time was I snapped out of that illusion.
Reality checks and hard decisions have a way of doing that.
It was my mother’s number. I was expecting a typical phone call — when would I be home, how was my day, how did the test go, etc, etc. Instead I was told that my grandfather had suffered an accident and was now on life support in the ICU. Brain dead.
The family had already come to the decision to let him go, and they wanted to know if I wanted to be there for it.
“When?” I asked.
“Tomorrow.”
Have you ever learned a lesson and wished you could go back and do it all again? To be better this time? To avoid…
