If you were able to find out today exactly when your life would end - at what age, in what year - would you want to know? Why or why not? Would you live your life any differently if you knew?
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
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I wouldn't want to know because if I found out I was going to live to be 100, I would think "oh, I have plenty of time for that..." and put things off. And if I found out it was sooner rather than later, I think it would be rather frightening and intimidating and also sort of takes the mystery out of life. We wake up each morning not knowing what is in store for us, and I think that is what life is all about.
I really, truly try to live each day like it was my last and try to have no regrets!!
I think for me, the answer would be "yes" and "yes"!
If I knew for certain, I would be able to make plans... scrunch everything in that I wanted to be sure to scrunch in.
I'd go to the frickin beach!!!
I saw an interview once on TV about a book that was based on the idea of living your life as if you only had 1 year to live... what would you do?
When I saw the interview, my answer was... nothing at all. I'd quit my job and just lay in the sun all day... sleeping.. what would be the point of doing anything else...
I must have been really exhausted with life back then... because now if I only had a year to live I would have a panic attack trying to get everything accomplished that I would want to accomplish... while at the same time spending most of that year at the frickin beach!
Is it obvious that I really want to go to the beach?
NO, I would not want to know! What if I found out that I was scheduled to pass from this earth in 30 minutes? Or two days?? That doesn't leave me nearly enough time to get my affairs in order, much less accomplish anything that is still on my life's work to-do list!! I think it would only be helpful if you found out you still had a minimum of 10 years left - then it would help you organize your remaining years so that you could do your best to fit in everything you want to do. But if time's too short, I don't see how it would help you at all, and you would wind up wasting your last precious moments on earth in anger, worry and dread. I want to continue on just as I have been, making a difference everywhere that I can, and moving toward the accomplishment of my life's work without that added pressure. I ALREADY feel that time is short and precious moments are slipping away. I don't need the additional stress of KNOWING they are.
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