- Mon Apr 28, 2003 4:28 pm
#73078
You are going to die, in 3 months. You even know the time it will happen, but not the place. What do you do? Would you change everything? Of those things you would change, why would you change them - what are you not satisfied with? Would you see it as selfish to change what you do, or selfish not to change? If it would be selfish to change, should you really change? And if it's selfish not to change, why do you live like this now?
If I had 3 months to live, I wouldn't tell anyone. I wouldn't want the pity, or the interest. Part of me would quit the job, pursue things I've wanted to do but never had the chance, blow the X grand I have in the bank. But another part of me asks why I should do that - who am I that I should enjoy myself at other people's expense? Why am I not pursuing those fantastic things now, if they are so special I would give up the last moments of my life for them? If my life is so oriented to the future, when in the future am I working for? What's the point in working for tomorrow, when you'll never reach it? That's just a lifetime of trying to catch up. No, do today what should be done today, and leave tomorrow to itself.
So come on, what would you do? Where would you go? Who would you tell?
If I had 3 months to live, I wouldn't tell anyone. I wouldn't want the pity, or the interest. Part of me would quit the job, pursue things I've wanted to do but never had the chance, blow the X grand I have in the bank. But another part of me asks why I should do that - who am I that I should enjoy myself at other people's expense? Why am I not pursuing those fantastic things now, if they are so special I would give up the last moments of my life for them? If my life is so oriented to the future, when in the future am I working for? What's the point in working for tomorrow, when you'll never reach it? That's just a lifetime of trying to catch up. No, do today what should be done today, and leave tomorrow to itself.
So come on, what would you do? Where would you go? Who would you tell?