View Full Version : If tomorrow would never come
BestFriend
05-08-2003, 03:12 AM
Lets say you are of complete health and for some unknow reason you knew that you had one more day of living, with what you have now, how would you spend your last living day and why?
I'm going to have to think about this one...for myself and post....down the line.
Do we live each day as it is our last day...living it to the fullest or do we get caught up in our responsibilities, preparing for a future that may never come, and overlooking the basic things in life that are so important in living?
Fiona
05-08-2003, 05:17 AM
This answer would vary quite abit if it were a week or a month. ONE DAY? Hug my little boy and tell him all the things that will help him to remember he was a much loved individual.
Steve
05-08-2003, 10:06 AM
I'd probably be sitting with my wife and girls, making a long, rambling videotape, punctuated with laugher, crying, hugs, and kisses. I'd have so much to say to our unborn child, that I would never get a chance to say, so I'd have to use a lot of videotape.
ethics
05-08-2003, 10:21 AM
I am in the same boat as Stevent. I'd rather wait till the unborn had SOME time on this planet.
IamZed
05-08-2003, 10:50 AM
Spend it with a woman but not tell her. That would be too dramatic.
ShinyTop
05-08-2003, 05:39 PM
Be sure I told all the people I love that they are loved. Which means I should be doing that now, doesn't it.
Steve
05-08-2003, 05:54 PM
You are right, tomorrow may never come, for any one of us. We never do expect the unexpected, do we? Could it be that "carpe diem" are the truest words ever spoken?
Techie2000
05-08-2003, 06:45 PM
The same thing I try to do everyday BestFriend. <STRIKE>Try to take over the world</STRIKE>. Go to school, talk with people, do my job, sit and play on the computer, watch TV, go for a bike ride, and of course spend time with my family. There is something to be said for consistancy.
melpomene
05-08-2003, 09:18 PM
*hugs for ethics* ............
i have been doing heaps of thinking lately. doing my usual floating out the window up into the heavens. one thing about this dimension is its incredible reliance on tangible evidence and tangible existance. yep, dom, has got me thinking big time this week.
i believe utterly that the "soul" and the "body" are two completely different entities. and that the "soul" uses the "body" like a vessel or a sponge or a virus.
as a nurse, i have experienced many unexplained incidences when people die. the body is dead, yet the person, the soul of the person lingers, remains for many a month afterwards.
Einstein was on the tip of these parallel universes or parallel beings. it is so hard for us to grasp the reality that there are indeed other realities. and what is a reality to you, is a different reality to me.
and yet ...................all of the above, just sounds like another form of a religion
and full circle to being utterly alone and isolated in the universe.
Paladin
05-08-2003, 09:43 PM
Originally posted by BestFriend
Lets say you are of complete health and for some unknow reason you knew that you had one more day of living . . . .
While it is certain that we all will, eventually, die, the time and manner of our passing is usually hidden from us. Which is good. There are people who should pre-decease me. In the above fantasy I would strive to make it so.
Never to forget, never to forgive. -- Fremen Maxim
I would be making preparations to make sure that my mom is okay. Then my husband, his sister and husband and my sister and husband would go out and get bombed.
BestFriend
05-09-2003, 12:36 AM
ShinyTop, ;) You got it! You got the chance to do that each and every day that you wake up!
I will admit that my initial thought to this was that I would want to speak to those that are closest to me...to hug them and tell them how much they mean to me. I thought of my kids and thinking of their future...what would be the most important thing that I could say to them to help them along the way...knowing that I would not be there.
Passing is inevitable. Living each day is a gift. Yes, gather ye rosebuds while ye may!
A part of us does live on, for awile, in those we leave behind and I do not challenge incidents happening around a person's death for those left behind.
Yet, I am challenging if we live each day to the fullest in our normal routines? Perhaps we get caught up and focus on stuff that really isn't that important to begin with and forget some things that are important. Perhaps we just ignore the fact and live as life comes and deal with just that.
Each of you have brought up some very good points to take into consideration!
Violet1966
05-09-2003, 08:14 PM
I'd make video tapes for my kids and my family and then my husband, to view after I was gone. I would want to be home with my family. Trying not to think about the inevitable, and showing them the most love I possibly could, in a day. I wouldn't let on to them that it was going to happen because I wouldn't want them to feel helpless. I would wait until the last hour before I was due to die, and kiss my children and hold them, then ask to go to the hospital and act like I was in great pain. This way my husband could be with me when I passed and it wouldn't be in front of my children. Also someone would be able to console my husband when I did pass. God this one is tough... :cry: