If today was your last day on Earth....

[Captain Kilowatt]

If you knew today was your last day on planet Earth what would you do assuming you were in perfect health? I mean if you knew you would die tomorrow what would you do in the last days? Would you spend it traveling to see the wonders of the world? Would you get hammered and forget all your worries? Would you spend it with friends and family whom you will be leaving behind? I ask this because we never really know when that day will come. We dismiss it as being far down the road but what if it was not. I ask this because at the age of 50 I have entered a turning point where the odds are beginning to add up against me. This was reinforced yesterday morning while I was at work taking my 6:00am break in the shop. The phone rang and it was a machine operator that had worked the previous dayshift. John was calling me to let me, and other's, know that a maintenance man that we all worked with had died the previous evening. Sam had worked the dayshift Friday and went home at 7:00pm. He had a shower and went downstairs to watch a movie. His wife said she would join him in a few minutes. About 10-15 minutes later she found him dead on the couch. He was 52. Although in great health there was a history of heart problems in his family. No cause of death has been determined yet however. We were all absolutely stunned at work.

This has given me time to think over the last 24 hours that were are only here on borrowed time and maybe it's time to start living today like it is our last. It could very well be. RIP Sam.

 

[AudioShockwav]

To answer the question.
I would you spend it with family I would be leaving behind.

Sorry to hear about your co-worker Garth, one thing in life is certain, you never know what tomorrow will bring.
Never take things for granted.




73
Jeff

 

[Shadowman2]

Most definitely spend it with family. To me, there is nothing more important then them. Everything I have worked for has been, in the long run, for them. I'm coming up on 70 at the end of this year, and well aware that you are correct in the fact we never know when our last breath will be taken.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

I guess what I was really thinking about was all the stuff we put off. Stuff we say we will always do and just never seem to get around to it. Taking the wife to that place she always wanted to go too, volunteering to help with your son's football team, or making that special purchase of something you had always dreamed of owning. We can always find an almost limitless number of reasons NOT to do something,that is easy. Perhaps we should look a little harder at doing what we had always wanted to do but just kept putting it off because there is plenty of time to less meaningful things first.Sometimes money is the issue but often the only thing standing between us and something we dreamed about is us ourselves.

 

[Lil'Yeshua]

Personally,I,myself would get ready for a big homecoming party but also,I would have to give an account of things I've done in this life after becoming a Christian before the bema seat of Christ.
CK,I know how that feels when most of your days are behind you. It makes one think about making everyday count,no more wasting time.


2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

I even myself confused. In the original post I stated if you knew it would be your last day but somewhere along the line my mind drifted towards NOT KNOWING and simply thought about what you would be missing out on by not doing something today instead of leaving it for tomorrow which may never come. THAT was my original thinking but somehow talking to family here while typing the original post it came out differently. It should have been more a "think about what you would be missing out on if" scenario rather than a "what would you do in advance scenario". Excuse the confusion.

 

[The Bruce]

I try to live every day as if it were my last. Like a lot of people, I have a "bucket list" and I try my best to check off items on that to-do list as I can. Other than that, I try to deal with people in my life as best I can. In other words, I try to live my life under the context of, "if I were to die tomorrow, what would people think of me on a personal level."

For example, my wife an I have a policy of "never go to bed angry with one another." I can't imagine how guilty I'd feel if someone I know were to die tomorrow and my last interaction with them was an argument or saying something hateful to them.