Purplevision

Have you heard the recent news stories about drug-resistant bacteria?

Or the number of people that are dying from infections they got while at the hospital? how ironic is that.

Two friends of mine have been treated for cancer this year.

This week my household was sick with the flu, each of us, one at a time. Not much you can do about it. Your loved one gets sick, then you do too. It just happens.

It's funny. One's health is one of those things we completely take for granted; until it is gone.

For a while there was a lot of talk about the next pandemic. The bird flu. Something else.

I wonder if we will experience another Mask of the Red Death?

Our TV shows and movies portray this sense that we have control over everything but it is not true. We dont really have much control over nature. People get sick and sometimes they never get better, no matter how we might try or what we might wish.

Life is both resiliant and fragile.

That is probably a lesson we should all contemplate and appreciate more often.