Life is full of surprises. You’ll never know for certain what your future will look like. You’ll never know where you end up or what you’ll accomplish in the next few years.
The people you love will suffer and die. Your friends may abandon or forget you. Many things will not happen in your favor. You can lose all your money or damage your reputation. Innocent people will die for malicious causes, be exploited, tortured and starved to death. We cannot be good without knowing what being bad is. We cannot be generous without knowing what being selfish is. We cannot fully enjoy life without understanding our inevitable death.
We live our lives like we can predict when we’ll die. We have an estimated range of our life expectancy, and expect our lives to go fine.
The possibilities are endless, but because it’s not practical to think about how many ways we can face a pointless and absurd death we tend to not think about them at all. We tend to allow life to just happen to us.
I think we’d all wish in those last 24 hours for a little more time to live. A little more to be able to die without regrets. A little more time to reflect on our entire lives and to remember the good and bad times. We’d regret so much of our poor decisions that took away so much important time in our lives. You will know that you are lucky to be alive, and have been given another chance to experience all that life has to offer.
You won’t take your time for granted and would only pay attention to the things that are most important to you. You have no time to waste, because your life can end any minute.
