Lying to others is wrong, but lying to yourself is an absolute tragedy.“Earlier today, in the last few hours before she went into a coma, she told me her only regret was that she didn’t appreciate every year with the same passion and purpose that she has had in the last two years, after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. ‘I’ve accomplished so much recently,’ she said. ‘If I had only known, I would have started sooner.
I wouldn’t have told myself all those little lies that prevented me from truly living every day of my life.’”I recorded those lines in my journal exactly 12 years ago today, right after I had a conversation with a good friend of mine who was desperately fighting for her life.
It honestly still breaks my heart to know it was a battle she ultimately lost. She never awoke from that coma.For over a decade now I’ve lived with my late friend’s last words to me echoing in the back of my mind.
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