“Time’s up, let’s go!” stated the shadowy figure matter-of-factly as he loomed over George, who lay in bed trembling, startled to be awakened in the middle of the night by this intruder.
“But I can’t go now, I’m not ready yet,” George stuttered. “I need an extension or something… there’s so much I have to do!”
“You’ve had sixty years George, plenty of time to get your affairs in order.”
“But I always thought I’d have more time, you know… to get my life straightened out and make amends, and… and tell people I love them.”
“Everyone always thinks they’ll have more time George; sorry, bud, game over.”
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This has been a Six Sentence Story, written for Denise’s blog hop at GirlieOnTheEdge. The prompt word we needed to use this week was “extension“. Click on the link to read some other great stories, and maybe add one of your own!
Always a scary thought. Glad you’re back! Good six.
Thanks, UP! The older we get the more we ponder where we’re at and if we’re living as we should be.
That’s a fun telling of a cautionary tale.
Thank you! Yes, a warning in these words to keep our priorities straight!
Well done and a good reminder of how short life truly is.
Thank you Ellen, I think we need to be ever mindful of how we are spending our time and if we are maintaining our relationships. That way we can live without regret!
It’s true, it’s always shorter than we think.
It surely is, Mimi, time flies by. We can never know when our lives will end, so it’s important to live in the day and love with all our hearts!
Well done! And yes, Josie, great minds 😀
We should never tire of the reminders that life is now and we’d better live it to the fullest…today 🙂
Thank you, Denise! Yes, life can change on a dime for any of us. What’s important is what we did with today, did we care enough, did we laugh enough, did we try enough, did we love enough!
we a little-hearted bunch ‘o bloggers this week, no?
lol
fun Six
Glad to have you back at the local word-wrangling (at least here at the Six*)
*rumor (and zoe) has it that you are the original host… thanks
Very intriguing that at least three of us picked up on the same concept for the prompt! It was fun to come back and give it a try after so long, and I should do it more often. Even more fun is seeing what everyone else did! Yes, I did start Six Sentence Stories long, long ago, and I’m so glad Zoe took it on, and then Denise so kindly agreed to keep the ball rolling! I think it’s a fun exercise for any skill level. Since brevity is clearly not my strong suit, it’s a good mental challenge for me… sometimes the challenge is to see how many semi-colons I can squeeze in!
We always think there will be an extension and time to let all the people you love know that you do….no time but the present. No guarantees.
So true! And I know so many stories of people who waited to long to say I love you, or failed to do so because of some feud that had been allowed to continue for too long. Make amends, make peace, live in love!
Time’s up! Ain’t that the truth!
Funny how we tend to leave the most important things to the last minute, and then when it comes to life – that may well be too late.
So happy to see you writing again! We just never know when our time will end. Great Six!
Thank you, Susan! It was fun to return and play with a story. I really need to make time to get back in the practice of writing. I miss it. Indeed, we never know, so it’s important we do the things we enjoy and make each day count!
We really should be mindful about our limited time. Thanks for reminding us.
I agree Viola. We tend to want to forget about the realities of our time expiring. What is important is how we choose to live each day, then it won’t matter when time’s up, we’ll be at peace with it.
No extensions. No do overs. Done is done.. Excellent.
Exactly, we may get through life begging favors, but when it reaches this moment, all of that is done. What we do in the mean time is so very important!
Reblogged this on Reena Saxena.
Thank you so much, Rena! 🙂
Very wise. As someone who’s pert near George’s age, I have most certainly quite a whole lot of wising up to do from now on too
I am in my mid-sixties now, and so very aware of the shortness of life. Hopefully, most of us do reach an age where we start to re-examine what is most important and if we’ve done a good job at letting the people who matter to us know how much we appreciate them.
A timely reminder for all, and a wise one too. So glad to see you here at the SSS!
Thank you Pat, it was fun to come back and see if I could still weave a few words together! I don’t think we can repeat this reminder too often! We can get so tangled up in busy lives that we miss what is really important.