The Value Of An Instant.
"If you want to know what a year of life means, ask a student who just flunked his year-end exams.
Or a month of life: talk to a mother who has given birth to a premature baby and is waiting for him to be taken out of the incubator before she can hold him safe and sound in her arms.
Or a week: interview a man who works in a factory or a mine to feed his family.
Or a day: ask two people madly in love, who are waiting to see each other again.
Or an hour: talk to someone with claustrophobia who's stuck in a broken-down elevator.
Or a second: look at the expression on the face of a man who has just escaped from a car wreck.
Or a thousandth of a second: ask the athlete who just won the silver medal at the Olympic Games, and not the gold he trained for all his life.
Life is magic, appreciate the value of every instant."
Quoted from Just Like Heaven - the novel. (Yes.. I know...I don't know why I read such a book too)