A Question many in the world may ask is death or the age one dies in the genes? Is the age one dies predetermined by the family members before you? Good question I always thought as I near the ages of my own parents deaths.
My parents died of cancer each one and though I smoked for 30 years then quit there is no guarantee on me not getting cancer either. Cancer is a gene passed down from one generation to another and never fully eradicated from a family, it can lay dormant for a generation or two, but resurface later I am told. So far I have been lucky in this regard, because it has not hit me. But I have lived a life surrounded by cancer and it’s victims who number from a high school girlfriend, to my grandfather, to my mother and my father on both sides of the family line. Surviving a deadly disease like cancer is not easy for sure in a family line like mine, now my second wife has survived it also, for almost 5 years or more.
I wonder how long though, I shall survive given the ages of my parents at the time of their deaths? My father died at 55 of cancer of the lungs, my mother died at 59 of the same. My Grandfather on my mother’s side died of cancer also pancreatic at 71 and my grandmother of my mother’s side of heart failure at age 64. So the question now is how much longer can I go in this life and world?I am now 55 years old. The future is there of course and I will be survived by my daughters and grandchildren of course, but, not knowing will always be at the back of ones mind. I now take blood pressure Meds and statins too!.
When your young and running and having fun in your youth you never stop to think of these things or of your own mortality. What you tend to think is you shall be here forever, and ever and not worry as you carry on each day. But as you age slowly and gracefully, at least hopefully for all, these thoughts do come to mind. And one can not help but wonder, will I be here tomorrow, shall I wake up the next day? You take each day, one at a time and hope you do is all.
In closing let me say this to anyone who reads this blog or writing , I plan on living each day to the fullest and doing what I believe is right for me and those I love and trying to enjoy what time I have. I think that is all anyone can do in life, live it to the fullest and keep going and loving. May God grant us all the time to do what we need to do and accomplish before we depart!.
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