Perspective is a Good Thing

Perspective is a good thing.
After posting this morning about dealing with a sick child, my DH just read from a blog about a friend of his with cancer. He has been getting sicker and sicker - while waiting for a transplant. The Blog is his wife's writing from her perspective of dealing with this situation on a daily basis. Tonight DH read to me that they were headed to SLC for a transplant. Which is great news. Once there and in the waiting game of when the actual transplant would take place - the doctor had to give them the talk about "if the cancer has spread these are the options we have..." Basically they said if the cancer has spread we can remove your liver and give you the new one and you will have a few weeks longer than you normally would but with medicine helping the transplant take it will make the cancer spread like wild fire, and the second thing is if the cancer had spread there is a chance he would not even make it through the surgery. The husband said if the cancer had spread - do not give me the new liver - give it someone that can use it for forty years not a few weeks. I love my family but I will not have any regrets.
Perspective......
A moment like that - looking into someone else's life - a life that is so on the brink of either continuing or ending - makes you (or at least me) take at look at my life. If something happened tomorrow, and I was faced with a moment like that would I answer in the same way? Would I be at peace with my own life and the choices I have made? Would I have any regrets? Would I do anything different? Would I need to apologize to anyone - my husband, my children? I am sure if I went over every second of my life I could come up with quite a few things I would do differently if given a chance, but then again maybe not. Only because I am a true believer that the mistakes of our pass help us learn and become a better person in our future. (If we really learn from them.) I am far from perfect, but I kind of like where I am at in my life - and who I am. I have a laundry list of areas I feel I fall short in, and have a desire to better at. I look at who I was at the time of graduating HS - almost 20 yrs ago, and the person I am now - the knowledge I have, the experiences I have gained and I would not change the journey that has gotten me here. Wow! I didn't even know I felt like that until I wrote it. Peace. Perspective.
Sick kids, dirty dishes, never ending laundry, diapers to change, bills to pay - these are the items that can bog us down if our perspective is not in focus the way it should be. Instead of letting them be negative things, we should be looking at them as blessings. A blessing that I have kids to be sick, dirty dishes means we have plenty of food to eat, laundry means a house hold of activity and family, diapers mean we have a little one to bring a special joy in our house, bills means we have a roof over our head - electricity - running water - heat. Perspective - it really is about our perspective at any given moment in time of our daily life.
I hope tomorrow as I am faced with those diapers, dishes, laundry, and bills I will be able to keep some of this perspective I have late tonight.