IS YOUR LIFE WORTH SAVING?

The Founder
Deeper Touch Foundation
083 3350 856
busy@magicmail.co.za
22 September 2006

To The Reader at Large
Anywhere in the World
Anytime, Anyhow

Dear Sir/Madam

Is your life worth saving?

There was a young boy in hospital, dying of leukemia. The paeditrician looked him in the eyes, realising his desperation to live. He asked him what he wanted to do with his life in the event that he could be saved from the deadly disease. The young boy looked at him with reasonable doubt, he didn't know how to answer the question. He had never thought about it, he just wanted to live.

Right now as you are reading this letter, hospitals are full of sick mortals, just in the same way that prisons are brimming with criminals. These hospitalized mortals are very sick; they are looking for immediate medical attention. Most of them are at the verge of losing their lives if unattended. Dedicated doctors and nurses are busting their backs 24 hours trying to save these endangered lives. However a serious question begs to be raised. Why should medical practitioners try so hard to save a life? You are invited to ask yourself this question while you let me touch your life on a deeper level.

What is so important about a person’s life that it has to continue? The answer doesn’t lie in a hospital bed however. It lies in the sanctity of the lives that you and I live, or fail to live. It lies with us who are currently well and are not sick to death. What is it that makes our lives so important that the day we get sick somebody must help save us? Why should doctors even bother to resuscitate and bring us back to the arena of the living?

We need to interview this situation thoroughly. We need to ask constantly: Are we living our lives or just wasting breath and medical efforts to keep us in the game? Are we players or spectators? The day we get sick will the dedicated doctor and nurse be wasting their overtime trying to save our lives? What is the inner value of the lives we are living that it must be kept? What are we doing to deserve the privilege of being alive? Are we abusing death’s leniency or are we taking this chance seriously?

To be brutally honest there are mortals among us who deserve to die because they are a problem and not a solution. Look at the rape statistics of our country and the related HIV infections. Do these perpetrators deserve a saving needle in the ass when they are sick or a bullet in the head? Do they deserve the right to life? I doubt it and I hope you do too. Why? Who are we to judge? Maybe we are just mortals who are brave enough to step in the shoes of the doctors and nurses responsible for saving these sickos. They are given the task to put together lives that are breaking apart. But we cannot really force them to put together poisonous
individuals, or a public nuisance like a man who rapes children.

Honestly hospitals are full of some constructive mortals who deserve a chance. These hospitals are housing hope and despair. They are often understaffed and the available doctors and nurses are overworked. The question is: Should these dedicated humans attended to a car crash "victim" who chose to drive under the influence of alcohol? Or should they attend to a dreamer whose life, if saved, will alter society for the better? Imagine if the inventor of the computer I am using to type this letter had died in a hospital years before he came up with this brilliant and useful idea… The world would probably be some years behind in communication and technology. Imagine if Nelson Mandela had died from an acute case of bilharzias as a young boy... Imagine if you were to die tomorrow. Would we miss you? Should we? Is your prospective obituary worth writing? Is your vision worth dying for? If you were never born, what piece of the puzzle of life would be missing? How different would life in general be without you? How meaningless or
meaningful would the lives of others be without yours?

Next time you go to the hospital, should the dedicated doctors and nurses send you to the ICU or straight to the mortuary? Should you be nurtured back to life or should we start funeral processions? What difference would it make? Would you be worthy of a second or twelfth chance?

You can only prove that you deserve a chance now, by living your life to the full and touching many other lives. You need to start living your life for a worthy cause. Give your energy to something valuable. Start having a dream. Start spending every hour of your life for a valid reason. Stop being negative and start being positive. Stop enduring unattended emotions and start expressing yourself clearly. Stop being ignorant and start reading. Stop free-styling and start planning. Stop being lazy and start investing your energy in hard work. Stop waiting for a call all day; start making calls. Stop begging; start giving. Stop making selfish prayers and start being the answer to the prayers of others. Stop being the problem, become the solution. Stop being a losery and become a winnery. Stop being a patient; become the healer. Stop being the poison; become an antidote. Stop being the statistic; become the statician. Stop being the slave; become the master. Stop being just a voter; become the candidate. Stop being the joke; become the joker. Stop buying everything and start selling something.


You must agree, hospitals are truly full of dying mortals; you need to become a living legend. Live. Always keep in mind that tomorrow holds nothing for you, but you hold something for tomorrow. This is my opinion yes, however, trust me, your life is meant to be lived. Live it.