Have you ever had a brush with death? However, the larger question is… did it change your life? Did you make some lifestyle changes as a result of the experience? Or… after a few day, weeks, months did life revert back to what it was prior to the experience? Maybe you made some promises to yourself to change certain aspects of your life, to ‘improve’. And now that time has passed, where are those promises, changes now?
Typically we all make changes based on any life changing events that affect our lives. For example, with a heart attack we make dietary changes but over time these changes typically slip considerably. When some of the same symptoms emerge they remind us of those changes and the positive impact they made. However, now… it’s time to not give just lip service to them but to let them take root and effect a permanent change
As important as the dietary changes are, the more important ones are the philosophical and spiritual changes. In many respects this can be a time of refinement of what you believe and a strengthening of why you believe what you believe. It can develop in you a greater sense of appreciation of what and who populate your world. It can also lead you to rethink what is important and is crucial and what really isn’t all that necessary. Some thing will fade and some will intensify.
If you are the introspective type, it will be natural to do some reassessing, at least it was for me. However, as important as reassessing is, the more critical point is – how did/does the reassessing translate into changed behavior? Do you walk the talk? It really doesn’t need to be a life threatening situation for you to reconsider what and who you are becoming…. and what’s important.
