The gift of time cannot be given but can be shared

One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, a happening- big or small- can affect an entire string of people. Occurrences can join us all together. You see, we're all made up of the same stuff. When something happens, it triggers something inside us that connects us to a situation, connects us to other people, lighting us up and linking us like little lights on a Christmas tree, twisted and turned but still connected on a wire. Some go out, others flicker, others burn strong and bright, yet we're all on the same line.

A lesson finds the common denominator and links us all together like a chain. At the end of that chain dangles a clock, and on the face of the clock the passing of time is registered. We hear it, the hushed tick-tock sound that breaks any silence, and we see it, but often we don't feel it. Each second makes its mark on every single person's life; comes and then goes, quietly disappearing without fanfare, evaporating into air like steam from a piping hot Christmas pudding. Enough time leaves us warm; when our time is gone, it too leaves us cold. Time is more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely. Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning,

Time can't be given. But can be shared.

-Cecelia Ahern- The Gift.

It touched me, so as most of my friends aren't into reading, I thought I'd post it on here and hope that you'll read it this way. It's just the end moral of the book but it's the part that spoke the loudest to me.

You jump, I jump

I've just watched Titanic for about the ... 5th time? And it got me thinking about the event and if there was a recreation of the great ship sinking. What would be different? How would we react?

Even today, the famous and the rich would be put before those who are less wealthy and more common, there's no denying it. Everyone is equal but because someone earns more money and is more talented than someone else they will be put before and ranked higher than someone who let's say is unemployed and has a dodgey accent.
I'm not saying that famous people are awful people, I just think that we're all human, therefore we are all the same just that we think and act in different ways.

We're all amazing in our own ways. There will be some people who are incredible singers, actors, dancers etc, some people who are insanely smart, brave and so on and because of that certain feature or talent, they're noticed for it, become famous and make money out of what they can do.
People are used to make money, give us entertainment and we feed off their lives. I'm not complaining, we wouldn't be where we are today without those people, but it's those people who will be put before us. Am I missing the point where that's fair? I'm not saying don't acknowledge them because they're talented, I'm just saying that what makes them different to us apart from the fact that they're wealthy and well known? They have the same chance of survival that we do. Would this comment make a difference? No, it's just something to think about.

If there was a recreation of the Titanic event today in modern times, the fact that the first class people got put in the lifeboats before the lower class people would still be the same as would the women and children going first... probably.

So girls/women, if you had to leave your man behind to drown on a sinking ship and get into a lifeboat so that you could be saved knowing full well that he wouldn't be, could you do it? I couldn't.
Okay, I haven't got a guy at the moment but being a teenage girl of course there's someone who I'd like to be my Jack and there's no way that I would be able to leave him behind to drown. I don't care if he would want me to go, what would be the point in me leaving him, being saved and living the rest of my life miserable and depressed because I left the man I love to drown?
In these times, if I'm being honest, I think most girls and women would take the same action as Rose and that there wouldn't actually be many people in those lifeboats unless they knew for sure that their man would be okay. I might be completely wrong and on my own with that statement but that's what I think anyway. I would stand by my man and stick to him like glue because there's no way I'm going to let him go through that on his own.

I can't say how we'd all react because I don't know, we don't all think the same and act the same as I pointed out earlier. There probably wouldn't be many people sat or stood calmly waiting to die, I know that much. I'd like to think that we'd all react calmly, put others before ourselves and think of the best possible way to deal with the situation but would that happen? No! We're human, not robots. We panic, we do stupid things and in dangerous situations all rational thought goes out the window but most of the time, we'll do what we can for the people we love. We'll take their hand, hold tight and not let go until it's over. Hug them until their fears disappear and everything's right again. Talk with them through the night until they feel ready to take on the world. We would not leave them to face the nightmares of the real world on their own.
If the event of the Titanic sinking were to happen again today, we would probably react the same it's just that maybe the lifeboats situation would be a little different depending on how much people are willing to die for their loved ones.

This post probably made no sense, I was just in kind of a soppy, ranting, weird mood and so I channeled those emotions through this, probably went a bit off course and babbled... a lot. Well, thanks for reading it anyways, feel free to comment if there's actually anything to say that nonsense lol