A Good Friend!

We all feel invincible at some point in our lives or at least I know I have; but as I grow older and the reality sets in that there is nothing further from the truth than this thought. I have reached a point in my life where I have lost family members and friends that were just to young to have been lost but yet they are gone except for the very pleasant memories I carry with me in my heart. When I say that they were too young to be lost I mean that they did not die in some life taking accident but they were lost to senseless illnesses that should not even be aloud to exist in the age we live in.

When I was a teenager and “invincible” most of my friends all thought the same way to some degree we were truly bullet proof and we were going to stay that way forever. Getting old and having aches and pains when you get out of bed was just something our parents wined about, but there was no way that it would happen to us; we were all to tough for that! Like I said I have lost a lot of good people in my life since then and the aches and pain that our parents wined about can just about bring me to tears at times. I am only months away from my 39th birthday and already feel like an old man at times. Some of my friends and I are starting to spend a lot of time talking about when we were young and the fun we had.

Now, we are the older people we would never be and I have learned to give God thanks for letting us live long enough to feel that way. The reality of this came a couple of weeks ago when we were on vacation visiting my in-laws in Georgia and my sister called me. Her husband, my brother-in-law, is a distant relation to one of my old friends and she was calling to let me know that he had been taken into the hospital because he was having TIA (mini-strokes) at the age of 38. Thank God he has been released and is back to work now with no lingering signs from the episode.

The point I am trying to make is that you really should not wait to purchase your life insurance because you can never tell when it will be too late!