We are always told that: time is limited, you should make every minute counts. But few of us really make it, and shamefully I am one of them. Clearly I know how reasonable it is, I just can’t control myself that I waste so much time in meaningless cases. Until two years ago, a disaster took place in my family, all of a sudden, I began to realize: life is short, seize time and make it meaningful, that’s what really worthwhile.

It was a weekend, a Saturday or a Sunday, well, it doesn’t make sense now. I sat in a net bar, chatted with one of my e-pals, suddenly, my sister said hello to me on QQ. We chatted a little while, then she asked me    did I know mother would come to Nanchang, I shook my head and asked why. She replied: “ Mom went to the local hospital for an examination, because she had felt sick for a long time. The doctor advised her to go to Nanchang for a further inspection. ” “ What kind of disease? ” “ It seems to be breast cancer.” What? Breast cancer? That’s a serious disease. At that moment, all I thought is I couldn’t lose my mom. I was so sorry for my mom. I wanted to live with her all my life, although we quarreled sometimes, even I cursed her when I lost my temper, she was my mom!

  With tears on my face, I walked out of the net bar, dialed a phone to her. Soon, she answered me:“ What’s up?” “ You’re going to Nanchang, right? What’s wrong with you? Why didn’t you tell me?” Incoherent I was, I just wanted to send my care to her. “Don’t be silly, just an examination, nobody knows the result yet. There is still hope. What you should do is study, don’t waste your time on nonsenses, understand?” Yes, I got her, but tears flew down my face like a river, I lost my voice.

Later on, father called me: “ It is breast cancer, but don’t worry, we came to the best hospital, doctors here are professional, it must be ok.” I nodded, with doubts.

You’ll never understand the meaning of life if you did’t experience life and death before. Just like me, it never dawned on me that someday I’ll lose my mother. Even did I think about it, mom should be old and stagger when she died. The deadline shouldn’t arrive so early! I regret every day, or the past mistakes I made, the quarrels I started, the fightings I did —— so many that I just buried myself in sorrows. If mom could survive this time, I wanna fix all these.

After operation, mom lived in the hospital for treatment. Chemotherapy took all her hairs away, and the pain traced her in tiredness. I didn’t see all those miseries she suffered, but I can imagine.

That year, she came back to spend new year with us, the first sight I saw her, she seemed to be energetic. However, the happiness didn’t last long. Several days before the new year’s eve, she caught a cold. It was not appopriate for her to catch other diease, she could be in danger to a great extent. Even the medicine for the cold should asked the doctors in Nanchang.Though she took medicines for days, but it didn’t come into effect, she felt worse at the new year’s eve. I accompanied her to the clinic, and the hospital. I went to different consulting room for assays and medicines. Despair occupied all of my heart, I was afraid of losing my mother again. That night, mom and dad and me, we stayed at the hospital till 11 o’clock or so. After all the injections, eventually, we returned home, there waited my sister and younger brother.

Mom survived. During these years, she went to the hospital for reinspedions. Now she is healthy, but still has to take medicines down her throat at the fixed time every day. The most important thing is that we are together again. No matter how many difficulties we met, we are a unity. Nothing can seprate us, even the god of death. As the old saying goes “A speck of time is more precious than an ounce of gold”, each of us should cherish time, not because it’s precious, but if you miss it, when you lose something, you’ll regret for your wholelife. So, what are you waiting for, come and cherish every moment with your family, your friends and the other half.