u/Professional_Eye2133

I can’t share everything about work but I work in the healthcare field.

It was a while ago, I was with someone who was seriously ill in the hospital. At first, everything felt normal. The nurses and doctors were doing their best for the person and I was just thinking it’s another shift and things would stabilize with the time.

But later, a doctor came in and told me that they had tried everything they could and there was nothing left to do. They started removing machines and said that it’s only time before he would leave this world at any moment.

Soon after a while, his parents and brothers came into the room. They were crying, talking to him, holding him. He couldn’t really respond but he was just looking at them.

Me on the other hand I stood there shocked. I went into that day expecting a normal shift, never imagining I would witness a family who were slowly preparing to lose someone they loved.

What broke me the most wasn’t the fear of death but it was seeing the helplessness in his parents eyes. His sister who was out of the country, could only see him through the phone. It was just heartbreaking to see his parents. No matter how old we get, to parents we are still their child.

That moment completely changed something in me. It made me realize how fragile and important life really is. We get caught up in stress, comparison, anger and whatnot that we forget none of this is guaranteed.

Sometimes just being alive, being able to speak to the people you love or waking up for another ordinary day is already something priceless.....