Today a friend and coworker had a heart attack while on a job site. He left the site and went to go get parts. Drove almost 30 min before he pulled over and called 911. When the ambulance arrived his heart reate was over 260 beats per min. I had to go do the job that he didn't get to start. They took him to the hospital while I was enroute. Last I heard he was in stable condition. When I arrived on site the custome asked how he was, I said I didn't know and his gruff response after was, " Well is this gonna get done today? I need it done today." He ended up needing much more work than originaly thought. Carma is a bitch. Later that day after I got off I was talking to somone I recently started dating and she is suddenly ill and went to the ER. I haven't heard from her since and have no idea what is wrong or what hospital she went to. Later in the evening I went to dinner with a couple friends and went to one of their places to smoke the hooka. We started talking and it seems everyone knows somone that has recently died, gotten ill, been in an accident or a number of other things. Today made me think. What if tragedy fell on me tomorrow? Do I put the effort in keeping in touch with people so I don't need to be the guy regreting not bing there? Or push those I love away that will leave them speachless if something happens to me? I like to live my kinda action packed life... I will continue to live that way. I will also start to better incorporate the real important people in my life and not make excuses on why I didn't return an call or initiate one. The only 2 things we have for certain in life is ourselves and death, Even with that we need to keep the others that we care about in our daily loop. What a day.
