One Minute
Saturday, March 18, 2006
♥ Saturday, March 18, 2006
One minute.What does one minute mean to you? Yes, it is 60 seconds, and 1/60 of an hour. It's the time you take to tie your shoelaces and turn on the computer. Its the duration to brush your teeth.How important is one minute? If you were to die one minute earlier than planned what would or not have happened?To dying patients one minute alone, it is the longest time in the world for them. Those 60 seconds feel like paradise, because they know very well that their lives are about to end in one minute. For that one minute they are contented.What if an ambulance reached a patient a minute later? What if a lifesaver came one minute later to save a drowning person? What if a first-aider took one minute later to notice that this old man has had a heart attack?We all take one minute in our lives to be unsignificant. We get angry when the person we are supposed to meet is late by a minute. But have we ever thought what one minute might mean to others?I almost saw my dad die today. I was waiting outside the ER. I was scared. Nothing could describe what I felt. I started praying but I didn't say a word. It was too tensed. I couldn't catch myself. Those few minutes were the scariest, most frightening moments of my life.We take one minute as but 60 seconds of our life. Give an alive and well person one minute as a birthday gift and he will think of it as but 60 seconds. Give a dying patient one minute as a birthday gift and he will thank you with gratitude. That's all that made the difference. One minute.-I'd risk my life to spend just one more night with you. I'd risk my life to hold your body next to mine- Mariah CareyJessi
