My father is critically ill in hospital following brain surgery and a cardiac arrest. At moments like these your world comes to a halt while all around you the worlds of other people continue at breakneck speed. At moments like these life becomes a matter of whether another person will take another breath or their heart another beat and you become intensely aware of the fragility of the life on which we build such frantic constructs.
I have been deeply moved by the skill, commitment and support of the medical staff treating my father and of the human creativity that has developed the treatments they use. Their meticulous, commited and caring work seems a supreme example of the best that human beings can be and yet, where they are able to do so, they return many of us to selfish and self-destructive lifestyles that impact our planet as well as ourselves. It seems that such lifestyles are only sustainable through a wilful shading of our eyes from reality and that each of us, hard as we find it to deal with, could only benefit from more real encounters with the fragility of existence.
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