Happy Brainiversary! – Gratitude
By Kevin Murray
- Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Three years ago today, I was getting my day started as usual, getting the boys ready for school and daycare, waiting for my wife to come back from an early morning client. About 8:00 in the morning, I got a HUGE headachce, unlike anything I’ve experience before or since. I was having a brain hemorrhage. I didn’t learn that until a little later at the ER. In the next 24 hours, as the doctors did their scans and evaluations, I got to ponder the possibility that “this might be it.”
I started to think, if I’m going to die, how do I want to go? I thought about my wife and children, and wondered if I could leave some part of me with them, in an act of will, at the moment right before I died.
Well, as you may have guessed, I did not die. I came home. I went back to work. Life continued.
But I looked for some meaning in this experience. What I finally landed on was: even more GRATITUDE.
So as I enjoy the day with my family and my brain, I invite you all to look for a couple more places to shine your gratitude. We can be grateful for things and situations. Or we can simply be grateful to be alive. I am today.
Thanks and Happy Brainiversary!
Kevin
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