The situational value of time
I’m in the hospital after 3 days of suffering pain from having a meningitis. Finally, I don’t feel any pain anymore, feeling just endlessly tired. Time has had a very different value for me during the last few days. Time was floating… time only resumed in waiting for the pain to stop.
Here I am now eating my spaghetti dinner, sitting for the first time on a chair. No music, no noise, no other person around me. Just me and my dinner.
I am happy, so happy!
Relieved that the pain is less, looking forward to leaving the hospital, to be with my family and beloved ones. Spend quality time with them. At this moment, quality time doesn’t mean going to the park, ice skating, hiking, swimming, going to a concert or shopping. At this instant, quality time just means being there with my family, kuddling with the girls, lying in the arms of my husband.
We sometimes might need to redefine what’s quality time and I finally feel grateful for this experience.
In this sense: I wish all of you a lot of quality time with your friends and family this year!