Life is short so live it to its fullest

I came late to our daily Scrum meeting this morning only to learn that our Senior Director of IT department had just passed away.  I was in a complete shock.  We all knew that he was having advanced cancer but nobody has predicted that his passing would come so soon.

Suddenly, it reminds me of the loss of my parents.  And it's really sad with all these feelings mixed altogether.

Wow! Life is short!  I still remember him always wearing a big smile on his face and heartily greet me by calling out my name loud every time he sees me. It was still like yesterday.

I heard those conversations around me talking about him being so hardworking and barely got time for himself and his family when he was alive. The fact that his advanced cancer was detected this late is the best proof that he was such a workaholic.  I also heard that he was having a really bad time when his only daughter left to the college when he actually realized that he didn't spend enough time with her when she was home with him.

This really is a lesson.  There got competing priorities in everyday of our life.  And it's up to us to prioritize them accordingly. It indeed is hard when all seems to be equally important but we could only pick to do a few out of them each day.

No matter how you are passionate about your job and your career, don't forget to take care of your health since all will be in vain without it.  Only the living person could carry out the tasks not the dead one!

Always spare enough time to spend time with family. ALWAYS!  At the end of the day, they are the only ones who care about you, who will be by your side and love you as who you are no matter what. And don't forget to share the laughter with good friends too.

After hearing our director's passing, one of my coworkers quoted, "Job should always come secondary. That's the lesson learnt!"

Right, a brilliant and successful career is meaningless without a good health and happy family members surrounded to one, isn't it?

Note to self and to all workaholics: Always remember to take care oneself well and embrace and enjoy time with family after getting  off from work each day.  Work can be waited until a new day comes but time and life will not wait you once you've missed those "precious" moments.

Let's embrace and enjoy them without any regret later!  Life is short.  That's true!  We just always need to remember it.