Will the sun shine tomorrow?

How confident we all are that the sun will be shining tomorrow. We have plans 5 years, 10 years, even 20+ years. Yer life is fickle. A few seconds can throw a big wrench in the whole plans. Priorities changes right away. Or perhaps we recognize what the priorities are.

Perhaps my thinking today is influenced by a friend whom I visited to offer condolences. His mother passed away. Suddenly. "There were no warnings. No signs (that she will be dying so soon)", he informed me. But is that not so uncommon? Of course there are cases when people are terminally ill and there death is not a surprise but then there are a whole lot of us, who just move on from here, without really giving any tell tale signs that this (move) is about to happen. 

Scary. But so true

Perhaps, it will be wise to always focus on what the real priorities are. But this is something that everyone says. The key question is how do you determine that. 

Many wise people have suggested interesting, simple and at times complex methods to figure this out. I like the 5 year rule. The rule is simple (at least that's what I think). Ask yourself the rhetorical question about a (any) event. "Will this event be still important when I try to remember it after 5 years?" This helps weed out the real important stuff from the mundane stuff that we deal with every day. 

It is real important to set the priorities right. We always think that there will be tomorrow when we can take care of the real, important  stuff. But then, there may not be a tomorrow