With Love and Purpose, You'll Live

I don't mean to sound morbid, but if today is the last day of your life, what would you do?

Would you
- spend the day as per normal, doing routine things and engaging in mundane conversations?
- spend the day with the love of your life, indulging in things that you had only fantasized?
- pack your bags and leave the country, far far away from everyone you ever know to live the remaining hours of your life in solitude?
- go bungee jumping, diving, racing and other crazy stuff you always wanted to do but never get the opportunity to?
- draw out all your money and give them to your family or donate them to charity?
- commit a crime, rob a bank just because you are going to die soon anyway?
- go on a shopping spree and spend all your money on material things that you always wanted to own?
- tell the whole world that you are going to die the next day and celebrate?
- travel to places you always wanted to go to and talk to strangers you never met?
- find all the people who have made significant contributions to your life and thank them personally?
- waste your life away drinking and eating?
- find the best doctors in the world and tell them about your condition (not that they can cure you anyway)?
- cry and sob, and complain about the unfairness of your own life?
- invite all your friends to a feast, without telling them why, and just hug every single one of them at the end?

As you can see, there are probably a lot of things you would want to do (and a lot you would not), but it all depends on your state of mind when you know the truth. Some people would want to try things that they never did before in their lives; some people would want to die peacefully in the presence of all their friends and family. Death is a touchy issue; it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist if you do not speak of it as vividly as love.

What is the morale of this post?

Mr Black wants to let you know that most people, including you and me, in the world is living each day without knowing when they would die. And if someone, a doctor maybe, suddenly breaks the news to them that they are dying in perhaps a week's time, they would panic and find all reasons for themselves to stay alive (e.g. I still have my children, I haven't loved anybody before in my life, I still have a lot to do before I die). In reverse, if you start thinking of things like, "What if today is my last day alive?" way before you die, chances are you will not panic so much and give yourself lame excuses to stay alive.

Live each day as if it is your last day. By this, I do not mean to say that you should be pessimistic. Just live as per normal, but show more care and concern for the people around you. Let the word "LOVE" hang by your lips; smile and be happy. After all, you might not see them again if it really is your last day alive.


So tell that someone that you love, just what you're thinking of, if tomorrow never comes.

Mr Black is a current undergraduate who resides in Singapore. This blog is a non-whimsical reflection of his life and the society in which he lives in at large.

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