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Originally Posted by craigster59

I worked on a show this week. The actress (soap opera) had been there since 1998. She's now 48 and had a daughter through surrogate 4 years ago. very nice and talented woman who was a fan favorite on the show.

I was talking with her on her last day (Wednesday) and she told me how her sister had been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer in September of last year. She had been able to attend the majority of her sisters chemo treatments and got to know many of the patients. She was amazed at how we all play the game, trying to win all the time and these people were fighting for their lives just to be able to spend some more time with their loved ones.

She had an epiphany then and there, and decided life was too short. She would leave the well paying acting gig and spend time with her daughter and family and audition for other roles with nothing definite on the horizon.

I told her it took a lot of balls to make that move, she probably felt scared but tomorrow she'd feel like a huge weight had been lifted. She sent me a text this morning to tell me how relieved she was and free she felt.

Good on you Angela for making the change. I think many of us would like to make changes big and small in our lives, some, like you have the guts to do it!

Love that story!