if you’re ever distressed

Our family recently suffered a loss and today I was feeling somewhat pensive and not particularly upbeat.  I sat down to eat my lunch and turned on the TV to avoid contemplating recent events.  I found pure serendipity in viewing the very end of the movie “Jack” starring Robin Williams.  “Jack” is about a boy that suffers from a condition that ages his body four times faster than normal.

The character Jack says, as the valedictorian at his high school graduation with a body that’s almost seventy years old, “Please don’t worry so much, because in the end , none of us have very long on this earth.  Life is fleeting.  And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes up into the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night.  And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness turning night into day, make a wish... and think of me.  Make your life SPECTACULAR!!!”

Or think of anyone else you’ve lost and realize that they would give anything to trade places with you right now.  So live, love and be happy with what you have right now and make your life SPECTACULAR!