As I sat with my
wonderful three men last night, watching a game which the Leafs should
have won, the hubby says to the kids "there is still time for Boston to
win" - they didn't believe that a team could come back from a 4-1 score
and pretty much told him he was nuts. Well, the leafs lost, we were all
disappointed (although I won about $100 and a free dinner out of it) -
but life goes on - all this crying on the radio today about 'our heroes
let us down'; 'i don't want to live anymore - my heroes are done' and
grown men crying and sobbing on the radio and tv . . . it is just a game
people!
I was so thankful that the game did not go any further as a true Canadian Hero Cmdr. Chris Hadfield was touching down last night after 5 months in space. Five months that will end up being etched in my memory forever. I have never been so proud to be a Canadian . . . one man (and his son) has single handedly changed the outlook on the Canadian Space Program. Not only did a Canadian, American and a Russian share time in space, log 62 million miles (imagine if you could put that on your Aeroplan card) - but they put their bodies through the most extreme a body may ever be voluntary put through. Loss of bone density, muscular atrophy, lack of saline in their blood, danger of permanent issues etc. All so that people can learn more in the medical field - blood was taken regularly and will be tested - the astronauts will be watched carefully for the next five years to see what side effects may occur. This wonderful Canadian not only opened our eyes to space, he opened his body so that others may live longer, and more research can be done. I raise my glass to him - what a tough, strong and wonderful decision he made when he accepted the invitation to man the ISS.
And then this morning I wake to hear that Angelina Jolie (who has never been a huge favourite of mine) has recently had a double mastectomy as she was found to carry a gene that showed she had a 86% change of developing Breast Cancer and 50% Ovarian Cancer. She watched her mum die a slow and horrible death due to breast cancer and did not want her children to see her go through the same thing. So this woman, who works in an industry where beauty determines success; where people pay thousand and thousand of dollars to fix flaws - this woman has put her family and her health says this in a National Post column today "“I do not feel any less of a woman,” Jolie writes. “I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.” I raise my glass to her - what a tough, strong, amazingly unselfish decision.
Kind of puts things into perspective doesnt it. We have a mother and wife desperately trying to find where her husband is (Timothy Bosma); we have three young women probably forever emotionally scarred from being held captive for 10 years in Cleveland; we have extreme weather affecting every corner of our earth - really snow on May 11th???.
Let's really open our eyes and look at what really matters . . . does the fact that grown men that were on strike for more money, and already make more that any of us ever will, did not manage to put a round rubber black thing in the back of a net just 'one more time' . Does it really matter that some have no-one to cheer for in the rest of the playoffs? No it matters that life goes on, more important and extraordinary things are happening all around use.
Perspective is an amazing thing when you realize what it is.
I was so thankful that the game did not go any further as a true Canadian Hero Cmdr. Chris Hadfield was touching down last night after 5 months in space. Five months that will end up being etched in my memory forever. I have never been so proud to be a Canadian . . . one man (and his son) has single handedly changed the outlook on the Canadian Space Program. Not only did a Canadian, American and a Russian share time in space, log 62 million miles (imagine if you could put that on your Aeroplan card) - but they put their bodies through the most extreme a body may ever be voluntary put through. Loss of bone density, muscular atrophy, lack of saline in their blood, danger of permanent issues etc. All so that people can learn more in the medical field - blood was taken regularly and will be tested - the astronauts will be watched carefully for the next five years to see what side effects may occur. This wonderful Canadian not only opened our eyes to space, he opened his body so that others may live longer, and more research can be done. I raise my glass to him - what a tough, strong and wonderful decision he made when he accepted the invitation to man the ISS.
And then this morning I wake to hear that Angelina Jolie (who has never been a huge favourite of mine) has recently had a double mastectomy as she was found to carry a gene that showed she had a 86% change of developing Breast Cancer and 50% Ovarian Cancer. She watched her mum die a slow and horrible death due to breast cancer and did not want her children to see her go through the same thing. So this woman, who works in an industry where beauty determines success; where people pay thousand and thousand of dollars to fix flaws - this woman has put her family and her health says this in a National Post column today "“I do not feel any less of a woman,” Jolie writes. “I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.” I raise my glass to her - what a tough, strong, amazingly unselfish decision.
Kind of puts things into perspective doesnt it. We have a mother and wife desperately trying to find where her husband is (Timothy Bosma); we have three young women probably forever emotionally scarred from being held captive for 10 years in Cleveland; we have extreme weather affecting every corner of our earth - really snow on May 11th???.
Let's really open our eyes and look at what really matters . . . does the fact that grown men that were on strike for more money, and already make more that any of us ever will, did not manage to put a round rubber black thing in the back of a net just 'one more time' . Does it really matter that some have no-one to cheer for in the rest of the playoffs? No it matters that life goes on, more important and extraordinary things are happening all around use.
Perspective is an amazing thing when you realize what it is.
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