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Tue 17 Feb, 2004 02:38 pm
It might be !
Might not be. I'd be mighty dissapointed if I'd lost my job somply because I hadn't died overnight.
Sealpoet
That could mean its the wrong job !
since my stoke last month, I consider this possibility every night when I go to bed.
Fresco, I truly believe that we should live each day as though it were our first. (with a few "just in cases" on the back burner.)
Dys, didn't I tell you that you were going to be ok? Hmmm, maybe that was the nun in sunglasses.
truth
I prefer to live each day as if yesterday were my last.
Dyslexia: circumstances have forced wisdom onto thee.
Good grief. There's J.L. playing that fiddle....
In some ways it makes great sense - ie to view our interactions with others in that way, to appreciate the beauties and joys of the day in that way and so on.
Probably wouldna work too well re paying mortgages, how you speak to the boss, and whether or ot you went to work and such.
If I lived today as if it would be my last, I'd be in jail tomorrow...
fresco wrote:Sealpoet
That could mean its the wrong job !
Three peer-approval points for that! It most certainly is the wrong job, and I'm working on getting another one... but if today isn't my last day, then the mortgage bill comes.
You should certainly live each day with your eyes open
but, uh yeah....you think theres crowding in the jails now...it wouldnt be pretty
There was a guy who worked where I used to, emptying garbage and cleaning floors, who was diagnosed with cancer, terminal and inoperable. He chose to keep going to work, because it was all he'd ever done. Very... I dunno, poignant.
Hmmm - many assumptions that we would do very illegal things if we knew it was our last day...why is that?
My thoughts are of doing very gentle things....
dlowan, I think because many of them are illegal precisely because there is an assumption that people would do them if there were no consequences. Illegal = consequences. Die tomorrow = no consequences.
I guess my goal is to live each day as if I might die tomorrow, (as in the OP.) If it occurs to me to tell someone they mean a lot to me, I do -- why not. If it occurs to slug someone, I'll think twice. Unless they really deserve it...
truth
Dlowan, I agree. One of the "gentle things" (perhaps the only thing) I would do--if others would permit me--is to organize myself around, or toward, the event of dying. Why should we live our last day as if it were to go on indefintely. The most important event of my life might be my death; as such it deserves my full attention.
It might be my last day, and I also might live to be 100. The best way is to be prepared for anything - even the good things.
OMIGOD I'M GOING TO DIE!!! HOLY **** THAT SUCKS!!!! I SHOULD HUG EVWERYONE AND WRTIE A WILL AND DO DANGEROUS THINGS BECAUWE I WILL DIE.
OMIGOD I AM GOING TO DIE. ****.
truth
Portal Star, that will probably be the reaction to the ulitmate news of most people, of those who have not prepared themselves for their inevitable death. I sure intend not to be one of them. And since I have known prepared ones, I believe it's possible and desireable.
I think it depends a lot on your age. I will hopefully not be doing that when I'm 85. But, I am early on in my human lifetime, have paintings to paint, children to produce, and living tomorrow like I would die at the end of it would not be a very productive day.
truth
I understand, Portal Star, but I've had this attitude of mine since I was in my thirties. You may, despite your youth die soon, as we all may. And there is no reason not to paint and plan for a long life even while preparing oneself philosophically for death now.
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