In 2021 I had two severe health complications that could have easily finished me off.
I’ve been rewatching “The Last Man On Earth” with Will Forte and Kristen Schaal.
If you have seen it, it truly was a Shawshank Redemption.
If you haven’t seen it, it’s got this insane almost unbelievable premise of a global virus wiping out all of humanity in the year 2020.
Except it was filmed in 2015 – 2018.
In it, multiple characters (spoilers) die.
The die of things that, today, would be easily treatable.
And it struck me how lucky I was.
Because in 2021 I was diagnosed with cancer and my kidney ruptured inside my body.
It wasn’t a kidney stone, my ureter got caught around a vein and restricted anything leaving my kidney.
So it swelled up and exploded inside my body.
This is 100% true.
The pain was unreal. I honestly thought that killing myself might be the only solution.
And then, in the SAME visit to hospital, they discovered I had cancer.
Good times.
But like I said, while the operations were pretty invasive – I had 4 ops that year, plus chemotherapy – the wonderful NHS looked after me and I’m here to tell the tale.
In the world of The Last Man On Earth, I am dead.
So are you, most likely.
And 100 years ago?
I’m almost certainly dead too.
My point is this.
You will die.
I will die.
Is what you’re doing now really what you want to spend your one shot doing?
I’m lucky, this is, for the most part, what I like to do.
And it pays for me to do other stuff I like doing.
You’re here by a miracle.
Don’t waste it.
