Live like our time is short

Ben Sasse on his “Not Dead Yet” podcast said he never understood why someone would choose chemo, with all its side effects, just to extend their life a few months. He concluded that he now knows because he has a 14 year old son.

On the podcast they also said “one day our kids may stop rolling their eyes at us and say, I wonder if my dad had any advice on this or that thing.” For Ben his terminal diagnosis gave him the urgency to try to record those things with his podcast. I don’t have a terminal diagnosis, or any diagnosis, but I want to see what is most important with that same clarity. I want to say, or write down all the things that I would wish I had said if I found out my time was up. I have a 15 year old son and a 9 year old son. I want to value all the time I have with them.