no you cant tell anyone youre going to die, you have 24 hours starting now
Call out sick from work, spend the day with my kids, do something meaningful with them, then put them to bed.
Tbh I think if this genuinely happened and I just found out right now, I would just start walking and not stopping. I would think I’d be the most mindful and alert I have ever been in my life and I wouldn’t want to waste that. I also imagine I would also probably be extremely nice to everyone. Like someone’s walking in the rain or something and I’d just hand them the coat I was wearing for them to keep. It would look really weird lol but I think that’s the kind of hyper-selflessness that you’d just do without even a thought if you knew you were about to die.
Thanks for asking this question btw it’s very intriguing. It makes me wonder if it’s even remotely possible to live each day like it’s your last y’know.
At some point it would become exhausting. You’d be mentally drained all the time; I honestly do not think it’s the best to live life as if every day was the last, else you’d be missing out on life itself. Every single day that we are alive is a day that we experience life. Ups and downs are impossible to avoid, it’s apart of it, but it’s that experience which makes us happy to live - and thinking of every day being the last is allowing yourself to live in a parallel world, experiencing life as a mirage.
That was really insightful tysm for replying. I feel like you’ve thought about this before haha.
Yeah I think you might be right, sometimes it feels like a day’s been wasted because I didn’t spend it exactly how I envision a good day, but there are different kinds of good. Every experience and feeling is unique and it’s hard to say that one experience or feeling is objectively better than another.
Also I like your phrasing ‘happy to live’, it sounds like contendedness which I do believe is possible unlike permanent happiness. Have you heard of that infinite happiness machine thing btw?
Would the phrase “live like you’re going to die young/soon” be better as, atleast for me, it means that you should live life to it’s fullest and try not to waste time on meaningless things
It’s somewhat of a common topic (life and living) between my wife and I, we share similar philosophies in life so it’s pretty normal for us to expand and better define what we believe. I would like to say we have found a good standing on where and what we believe to understand, but everything changes overtime, and I’m sure that I’ll understand something completely different.
Have you heard of that infinite happiness machine thing btw?
I don’t believe so haha. Sounds strangely dystopian though - mind explaining it?
Delete all my porn and write down all my passwords for my wife.
Convince my spouse to stay home from work and do all her favorite activities, basically give her a really awesome day to remember me by.
Keep browsing.
Honestly why not? You’ll be dead, what does it matter what you do in your final hours? I’d just carry on as was. If you’re religious, then death is just the next step, and your last day won’t mean much. If you’re not, you’re about to cease existing, what would it matter to you then.
Just relax, eat chips, and doom scroll your way to death
