This is the first time writing a more deeply post with no crypto or music subject.
Today I am thinking a lot about how time can be cruel.
One of the biggest fears of humans is death. However, the problem is not death by itself. The biggest problem is the time and how we manage it. We learn since the beginning that everything has an expiration date, even things that don't have a living being's source, such as a computer.
Animals, including us, also have an expiration date, unknown, of course, different from food that usually starts to decompose with a certain amount of known days. We can survive a rare disease and die the next day in a car accident. The problem is that we don't give much attention to time sometimes and miss important moments with someone. And the clock continues to tick anyways.

Learning about time with pets

I have learned to respect the time since I had my first pets. My first pets were hamsters, I had a couple of them. When you buy hamsters, you know they can only survive for around 2 years. So I could expect more than these 2 years, the bad thing is that they are fluffy and it is sad when they are gone. However, I think that in 2 years you construct fewer memories with them, and it is easier to say goodbye.

One of my hamsters that I had more than 20 years ago, Fluffy was his name

In 2007, my family bought a Chow Chow, the interesting thing is that it was the same year that I started dating my wife. I wasn't a child anymore. Actually, I was already a young adult, but still, I built a good bond with him; his name was Dovi. We used to play, and I loved to pet him. However, I knew that even being different from a hamster, the expected life of this breed is around 10-12 years. So I tried to live the moments with him like it was the last hug every time. In 2017, I moved from my country to Canada. I was very sad because I couldn't say goodbye to him, He died in the second semester of 2020. I was supposed to go to Brazil in April of that year, but because of COVID, we had to cancel. Again, the time didn't stop.

Dovi's picture

Family

I got married and I had two awesome kids, Hannah and Isabella ( 4 yrs old and 1 yrs old). I already know that time doesn't stop and I try to take advantage of every moment of their growth. Also, I always tried to live the moments with my parents and wife, who I deeply love. I have been a cancer scientist for more than 10 yrs, I love science but still, I didn't post anything about it at Hive. But now for a crazy coincidence that I could finally visit my parents (after almost 5 years) and after they told me that they were investigating a health problem with my father for a couple of months, yesterday he got a diagnosis. He has a cholangiocarcinoma, liver cancer in the bile ducts.
It is always a surprise, despite the fact that the future health of my parents was always a subject between my wife and me, and I know that they are getting old, and the probability of being sick is getting higher every minute that the clock ticks. Sickness and death always contact us by surprise. Even knowing that our loved ones can get ill or die, we never know how and why.
At the same time, we slow down when we are hugging or having any other significant moment with someone looks like that goes faster sometimes, and we feel that we missed a lot.
I know now that in addition to the unlimited support that I want to give to my father to be able to go through that, I also want to spend every second as my last one with him to try to reduce this feeling in the future. Still, I know that I will always think that I could have done much more with him.
My advice is that anyone that is reading this, please stop what you are doing, stop playing your video game, if you are working a lot, stop a little bit and try to hug your loved ones, your child, your husband, your father, your even your cat or dog.

A picture that we took last Saturday to celebrate the first year of Isabella, who I am holding, with my wife, Hannah in her lap and my parents