One Week Left to Live
What if your doctor told you that you had only 1 week left to live! Would you start acting differently? Ask yourself that question, and then write down on a piece of paper the things that you would like to accomplish in your final week on earth.
Would you apologize to all of the people that you might have hurt?
Would you call all of your loved ones and family members and tell them how much you love them?
Would you give money to a charity or your church?
Would you spend as much time with your family as you possibly could?
Would you pray every day?
Now let me ask you another question. Why are you not doing those things now?
It is important that we live our lives to the fullest, and treat everyday like it is our last. Why wait to do things just because we know we are going to die? How do we know that we are not going to die tomorrow? That’s just it, we don’t! See where I am going with this.
Have you ever heard of “The Lesson of the Moth”? It goes like this:
I was talking to a moth the other evening, he was trying to break into an electric light bulb and fry himself on the wires. Why do you fellows pull this stunt I asked him, because it is the conventional thing for moths, or why if that had been an uncovered candle instead of an electric light bulb you would now be a small unsightly cinder, have you no sense?
Plenty of it he answered, but at times we get tired of using it, we get bored with the routine and crave beauty and excitement, fire is beautiful , and we know that if we get too close it will kill us. But what does that matter, it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty, than to live a long time, and be bored all the while.
So we wad all our life up into one little roll and then we shoot the roll, that is what life is for. It is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty. Our attitude toward life is easy come, easy go. We are like human beings used to be before they became too civilized to enjoy themselves. And before i could argue him out of his philosophy, he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter. I do not agree with him myself, I would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity.
Too often many of us go through our lives on autopilot, without even knowing. We just let each day pass like the one before it. And when we reach old age, we might look back on life with “I should haves” and regrets. I’m telling you it’s time to switch off the autopilot! I observe hardcore religious people avoiding life’s joys, ignoring reason, instilling hatred, while basing their actions upon selections that they think their God meant. Ignoring their common sense, which would actually make them a decent person.
There is a beautiful movie on this same subject. The movie is “IKIRU” and the director is Akira Kurosawa. It is a great movie about the inspirational parable of living life to it’s fullest.
Just keep this message in your mind, and if it makes you change your perspective just a little, then you will have taken another step forward On the Path. Take Care my friends!
this is a great post and i love the way you’ve worded it. i know you through reciprodrops, of course and so have been here many times but today was the first time i thought to stop and comment. if it’s alright, i’m going to answer this thought provoking post as a post in my own blog tonight. i hope you drop by to see my answer. have a great day!
This is a beautiful and uplifting post. Your choice of graphic is truly magical as well. Reflections such as these can serve as a wake-up call for all humans who have forgotten to be true to themselves. Health crises can do the same thing, if people choose to listen.
For example, I recently stayed at a B & B and chatted with the owner. He had been a university teacher until he had a coronary from over-working. Surgery and experimental cryogenic procedures saved him, yet he initially reverted to his old patterns. A little voice inside his head told him that wasn’t good. Then, he happened to find a historic B & B for sale in a quieter region of Australia. His conscience urged him to take that “second chance.” That was four years ago. He is still “alive and kicking.” He enjoys his gardening and small sailboat outside the waterfront B&B. he doesn’t regret giving up the lifestyle that put him in the hospital. We all have choices and wake up calls. It pays to listen more closely.
Life always reaches a certain point where one would always reflect on his life. Everyone knows that this would happen… If so, why don’t everyone live to his fullest?
I personally believe that everyone is trying their hardest to live through there lives. Taking every step carefully hoping it’s the right one. Till the point of where everyone reflect, I think that everyone would still take the same path they took.. Even if it’s wrong, it has it’s own part of fun, isn’t it? Because of that wrong step, more spices are added to one’s life.
One week more of life.. Saying that you have nothing that would restrict you from doing any bold thing. Because that you have nothing left to offer to hold in life. Of course you would be So what you have doing everything you desire in this life? can you bring it to afterlife?
Just my 20 cents.. sorry if contrasting with your topic
This is a very interesting article. I love the way you used a moth to explain your point.
I just found your blog via blogrush, and dropped my card too.
Solomon.
You alright? You must be busy with the move cause I know the war has been over for awhile.
Thanks for this post. I’ve often thought about how life would occur differently to me if I were told I had only a short time to live, and how that mindset can positively affect how I’m living now. I’ve concluded that we often refrain from opening our hearts to others for fear that they’ll dismiss or reject us and we’ll have to live with the resulting pain afterward. If we had one week to live, however, the prospect of suffering for a long time simply wouldn’t come up. To adapt this sort of thinking into our real lives, I think it’s important to see how much choice we have in the perspective we take on others’ behavior toward us — that we truly can choose whether we react positively or negatively to the interactions we have in our lives.
Hello! I am having a psychic attack every day. I have been going to church every day almost, asking father to pray for me, but I am still
having attack. I see, feel, with closing my eyes I can even see what is a head of me. I see other side of wold 3D. I am living in a pain, I contain so many spirits I am feeling like monster. I am smelling every
order, people, and things. And I can even smell the cancer from the people if they are suffering from. I wish everything would stop, and live normal life. What can I do to ease the pain I am facing. I am not
,nor want to be psychic. Please understand English is not my first language.
WHENEVER WE START LIVING EVERY DAY OF OUR LIVES LIKE IF IT WERE THE LAST ONE WE WILL CHANGE THE REST OF OUR ENTIRE LIFE