no you cant tell anyone youre going to die, you have 24 hours starting now
Convince my spouse to stay home from work and do all her favorite activities, basically give her a really awesome day to remember me by.
guess i’d buy a rifle and take my best shot at improving the world
Tbh I think if this genuinely happened and I just found out right now, I would just start walking and not stopping. I would think I’d be the most mindful and alert I have ever been in my life and I wouldn’t want to waste that. I also imagine I would also probably be extremely nice to everyone. Like someone’s walking in the rain or something and I’d just hand them the coat I was wearing for them to keep. It would look really weird lol but I think that’s the kind of hyper-selflessness that you’d just do without even a thought if you knew you were about to die.
Thanks for asking this question btw it’s very intriguing. It makes me wonder if it’s even remotely possible to live each day like it’s your last y’know.
At some point it would become exhausting. You’d be mentally drained all the time; I honestly do not think it’s the best to live life as if every day was the last, else you’d be missing out on life itself. Every single day that we are alive is a day that we experience life. Ups and downs are impossible to avoid, it’s apart of it, but it’s that experience which makes us happy to live - and thinking of every day being the last is allowing yourself to live in a parallel world, experiencing life as a mirage.
That was really insightful tysm for replying. I feel like you’ve thought about this before haha.
Yeah I think you might be right, sometimes it feels like a day’s been wasted because I didn’t spend it exactly how I envision a good day, but there are different kinds of good. Every experience and feeling is unique and it’s hard to say that one experience or feeling is objectively better than another.
Also I like your phrasing ‘happy to live’, it sounds like contendedness which I do believe is possible unlike permanent happiness. Have you heard of that infinite happiness machine thing btw?
Would the phrase “live like you’re going to die young/soon” be better as, atleast for me, it means that you should live life to it’s fullest and try not to waste time on meaningless things
If you live thinking this you’re only focusing on stuff which, at your point in time, find meaningless. Finding meaning in things changes drastically over time, and your point of reference is based on what you believe at a certain moment. During your childhood you probably found playing with toys to be “meaningful”, but now during your adulthood (assuming you’re an adult lol) you look at playing with a firetruck to be meaningless.
See the difference?
The time wasted on meaningless tasks are usually memories and experiences which we hold very dearly to. I’m sure as you get older you will regret not doing a certain thing because you’re too worried about the future, and how different actions will cause different results if you waste a little time. I know for a fact that I already regret not doing the “meaningless” things I thought were a waste of time, like spending more time with my now deceased dog. I took for granted that he was alive, and never really spent nearly as much time as I wish I did, thinking that an hour of work was more important.
Contrary to what I’ve been saying though, the manner of living life like “you’re going to die young” is also pretty valuable. You don’t want to be on the extreme that you simply don’t care about the future, and try to attach meaning to every action you take - it’s destructive.
Really, there’s no “right” way to live life, you can only live, make mistakes, take insight from your mistakes and mistakes from others, and to create your own way of living. It does sound corny as hell, I wont even lie, but think about it and do what you want with the knowledge you have right now.
Thank you for this, I think it’s now more about trying to become fulfilled in whatever position you are in life and trying to make the best out of our lives.
Although, as you said, there isn’t a right way to live, but I personally think that we should strive for improving what we can, with the little power over the world we are given and to avoid hurting and making other people’s lives worse.
I already regret not doing the “meaningless” things I thought were a waste of time, like spending more time with my now deceased dog. I took for granted that he was alive, and never really spent nearly as much time as I wish I did, thinking that an hour of work was more important.
The thing is, I don’t think spending time with loved ones (your dog for example) is meaningless, infact I think it’s very meaningful.
I was not saying that spending time with my dog was meaningless, just that I prioritized my work, indirectly issuing “less” meaning to the time I spent with him. Either way, the past is the past, I can only go up from here.
I was not saying that spending time with my dog was meaningless
Sorry, I’m a bit stupid.
just that I prioritized my work, indirectly issuing “less” meaning to the time I spent with him.
I understand how sometimes we can’t realise how much we’ll regret something until afterwards.
Maybe hire a hooker. Feed my dog a steak. Write a will. Test drive a hellcat. Hire another hooker.
I’d do it in that order too
hookers are rape
no?
I’d worry writing a will then suddenly dying would come off as suspicious.
steal someone’s credit card and go buy a bunch of weed (it’s legal here). after also eating a great meal, I’d go get high in Central Park and just walk around, enjoying the views until I died.
the person would report the card stolen and get the (relatively small) charges stricken/refunded, so I’m not worried about the ethics of that.
As funny as it is to make fun of you and your 7 alt accounts this comment is actually concerning. Please visit your friends and family in real life more.
Don’t do whatever this is.
no clue what you’re talking about… you seem to be imagining things
I’m serious. Please talk to your friends and family.
seek help
edit: oh, it’s a hexbear troll…
try to meet with or call everyone i love and tell them how much i love them
I’d probably spend the day doing nice things for my wife
cry a lot
Nothin. Anything I’d want to do would cost money, and money is the thing I dont have.
Maybe speed things along if nothing else.
Yeah, I would just chill and ignore everyone’s requests.
we don’t need money, just credit. It’s not like we’ll need to pay it off.
You got 24 hours left to live. You aint getting no credit anywhere fast enough to use before the end of the day.
duh
that assumes you already have a credit line, as one should.
Delete all my porn and write down all my passwords for my wife.
Fuck knows. Panic?
IM GONNA POOOOOOST
Finally start smoking pipe tobacco. I’ve been putting it off as I’m sure it will give me mouth cancer.
Get a second opinion.
huh
