05:21… what do you value the most?
Prior to the accident, I put a lot of value into my love of professional sports teams, like the Canucks and Chelsea, but they were no help to my recovery.
I want to go down the road of the value of cheering for those professional sports teams and what it got me.
It's fun to be associated with a team, as it acts like a relationship with someone. There is something to be said about someone who sticks with a team through the bad years, as much as the good ones. Sadly, with so many pro teams, in just about every sport, championships are much harder to win and the associated argument value of that is so much higher, among fellow supporters of the sport or the league.
In the grand scheme of it all, what's it really worth? In recent years, I have placed less immediate value on those teams, because supporting them didn't save my life. I still support them when I see what they're up to, but I'm not going to go as crazy as some, because I don't value it as much as I did before.
That can be said about a few things. TV shows and movies don't carry the same value as they once did. I don't feel like there is as much time in our existence to comb through everything new, especially like I once did.
Sticking to the old favorites and venturing into some of the newer additions to my favorite franchises keeps me in a good spot of satisfaction.
I'm also getting tired of the "overly critical" line of thought. It has become fashionable to try and find the smallest flaws in everything. Yes, there are critics of just about everything and they get paid for their critiques, but no one is going to stop and pay someone money to someone who made a critical observation, correctly, incorrectly or controversial.
Being ever so close to death has changed my perspective on a lot of things. Entertainment being one, obviously, but just the overall sense of enjoyment is such a big deal. Did you enjoy your life, at the end of it, that's a big deal.
05:55… that was a long way around to get there. If you didn't enjoy your life, there's a pretty good chance that you caused the people around you to not enjoy your life as well.
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