I’ve known two people who had serious health scares and made significant life-change decisions in the window of time that followed. Neither of their changes “fixed” things about their life that led to the health scare, though. Rather, the scare very suddenly changed their view of their life and their priorities.
It doesn’t have to be a stroke or a heart attack. Events we don’t expect come into our lives as we are going about our day-to-day with our heads down, just trying to stay on top of all we have to be busy with. Those events turn the lights on.
Chucking everything in light of some such event is probably not wise; our eyes need time to adjust to the new light, and if we jump into action before they do we’re likely to run into a wall.
But they can be gifts, these scares: a rare opening to ask fundamental questions about what we want to be doing and the impact we want to have.
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