Lifes greatest joke

Just when I had started to believe things where finally going right, there it was............life.........and it just had to prove me wrong.

Thursday had me believing but by Friday, lets just say the destruction of said belief was well underway.

Turns out that the good news we had about a friend turned to seriously bad news and the 2 years that we possibly had has now turned into 6 - 8 months if we're lucky and thats only if we get extremely lucky. But wait as they say in the infomercials there is more.....the next phone call I receive........death in the extended family ...... yay another funeral........... but wait...... yes there is more........... my aunt has just recieved a death sentence I'm told by email, she has a anurism in the brain that the medical aid wont pay for surgery on. Yep seems a 2nd anurism in less than a year is beyond the medical aids multi million rand resources and they like most of us do not have roughly R70k lying around to pay for the surgery themselves, so it's just a matter of time before the next phone call.

The result of course was an extremely blue me, a me that was and still is questioning the fairness of life and why it is that when things seem to be going well for the first time in a long time this has had to happen.

The answer I have come up with may not be the right one but it works for me so I will believe it till it is proven otherwise. My answer?? Life was just reminding me that it can all be gone in an instant and that it's time to start appreciating the small things and the good times when you do have them because who knows how long it will be before they are gone and if they will ever be back again.