"Think about living as if every moment was your last and stop waiting on the future." An inspiring true-life story of personal growth from personal grief. How do you come back from hearing that a much-loved partner is going to be in a vegetative state for the rest of their lives? The common response would be to give in to grief and despair at the impossibility of the situation. Using his personal experience as a guide the author Hiroyuki Inoue, who was a young dentist in Hokkaido, Japan at the time, takes you step by step through his process of rebuilding his life and that of his family.