The sentence above may sound somewhat selfish or harsh but that is not at all where I am going with this thought. My heart has been heavy this past week because we lost another friend from our Parkinson’s Community. It was a fellow CarePartner this time, someone who had lost her Person with PD and was finally going to have the opportunities for travel she postponed until later. Unfortunately by the time later came, it was way too short.  

I am not sure what I am advocating for here. Perhaps it is a reminder that I can’t know what the future will bring so I better get busy and make sure every day I have matters now. Maybe it’s accepting the challenges of our journey and still finding ways to fully engage in life in spite of my husband’s diagnosis. I may find that taking on some temporary additional burdens will allow us to still have fun. I’ve been putting off our annual spring getaway saying that it’s just too much work, but maybe I need to revisit that concept and recognize that the joy it brings will outweigh the difficulties?

Life is short. I can’t assume that I will have time later for fun, I need to make sure it’s happening now. And, if the opportunity includes my husband then all the better but even if it doesn’t, I can’t put it off. I don’t want to wait for later because I realize now that later may never come.