In my job I see lifes new beginnings and lifes endings. Some of the new beginnings and endings happen very close together. As we walk through life we take small things like eating and breathing for what it is. Lifes needs. My job is trying to save the smallest of small lives. The people I work with are some of the best in the business when it comees down to it. As we work to try and correct what is going wrong, and then find other things going wrong we don't quit. After each trip like that we often come back and and wonder could we have done anything different. Playing the "what if" game will only kill you. Burn you everytime. We do what we can with what we have and what we are trained to do. There have been times when we have questioned saving a life. Before you take offense we have to look at the outcomes. We don't play god, but we have to try and see what would be. I think that works us over more than if the new life was permitted to end as peacefully as possible. We try and see quality of life. Again we can't judge that. Who can say if or what quality of life really is. I know I love what I do and so do the people I work with. We fight for life and don't take the small things for granted. Life is something we as a people seem to think of as just eating and breathing. Life is living, Life is loving, Life is caring for those who have trouble caring for themselves. Everyone has heard stop and smell the roses. I am saying stop and smell them but also look at them. See what is around them. See the little life and then do something different. Say hello to people, let them know they are alive. Thanks for reading this if you do.
