I found this on Kindle the other night. Ever since my best friend from highschool years passed a way last Winter, I've had this feeling of something 'hanging over me' and I just couldn't quite put a finger on how to deal with it.
This book was a helpful read. It DID get me more into the frame of mind I wanted about Death.
The question here posed, 'What if today were your LAST...?' got me to think also about, 'What if there were NO tomorrow...?' and although they have overlaps I feel that ultimately, they drive different points.
The hardest part though is the other aspect of 'framing' this concept around death, if your mindset REALLY got itself wrapped around the notion of ABSOLUTELY NO TOMORROWS, then each day of your life WILL be focusing on using up or enjoying exactly what is in front of you. BUT if you knew you had 20 days left to live, 12 days, or even 3 days left to live, your 'strategy' and what you choose to go for could be entirely different! For me, at least, this is what is driving me crazy and 'stuck.'
I'll have to experiment I guess. For some, they'd be content focusing on really 1 day at a time. For others, a list like Goddard's might do the trick.
Last night, as I pondered over this, my initial thoughts were to go and buy myself a sewing machine. I thought that my biggest regret would be to not have that experience of a buzzing busy sewing machine.
Now that I am semi-awake now, my mind is perplexed at not knowing how to resolve the 'Accomplishment Issue' and how long it takes to complete things.
OK. Well. Today is Day 12,776 for me.
Anything more than 600 feels like quite a lot to me.
But when I think of sequences, anything more than 9 or 12 is quite a bit of length.
Or if you compared 1 day against 2 days, even that is a huge deal!
Argh!!
OK. More to come soon.
Too hungry to think well!
