I had a bit of a health scare this week that has put a few things in perspective. Now I consider myself a fairly healthy sort of person – I eat well, I exercise (not directly but walk a lot and go diving etc), I’m young…ish at 31, and I have good genes whereby my dad is approaching 65 but looks much younger and I can’t remember him ever being sick.
Why wait till you are dying - create a living 'Bucket List'
Well I had a scare at the weekend that had the potential to be nasty as some of the symptoms were associated with cancer. This of course got my mind racing and it was like an avalanche of bad thoughts that I couldn’t hold back. A Google search did nothing to relieve my fearsand served as a lesson actually to not use the internet to diagnose health problems!
So anyhow I am not one for visiting doctors but now I have a daughter the option of ignoring the problem like most males would was not going to be fair to my little one nor me for that matter so I hurriedly made an appointment to get checked out.
As it turns out I am fine but it really has opened my eyes to a few things:
- If you haven’t got your health then what do you have?
- No amount of money can replace being healthy
- Why should the fact that I have a daughter make it any more important in looking after myself – I should have wanted to find out what was happening for my own sake.
- If the doctor had of told me I had some incurable disease then would I have had regrets – and the answer was yes!
So I have actually decided to sit down tonight and work out exactly what it is that I want from life and create a bucket list of all the things I would like to do and achieve in life. That way I can cross them off so when the day comes when my time is up – I would have pursued all the things I wanted from life and have no regrets for not trying.
I will post my list when it is complete 
