Question of the Day: Day 44
If you found out that tomorrow was to be your last day on earth - how would you spend your last 24 hours?
posted by Michelle at 9:38 AM
We are looking for answers to some hard questions as we dig deep inside and explore our own core values and how that guides not just our own lives but the very world that we live in. These questions will be asked to a group of high school students but we would also like to hear from the world at large. While we hope to keep this forum wide open we do reserve the right to delete responses that we find to be offensive or combative in nature. Thank you for participating with us.
posted by Michelle at 9:38 AM
11 Comments:
I would take a couple of hours to write letters that could be read long after I was gone. These letters would be to the most important people in my life (my sons, my sweetheart, my parents, my closest friends, and my students) and they would tell them all of the things that I want them to remember like how loved they are, how I believe in them, how they've touched my life, how I hope that all of their dreams will come true, and (like WiNgS said) how I hope that they will not be bogged down by my not being there but will go on to life life fully.
I'd take an hour to make sure that some crucial arrangements were made so that my family would not have to deal with some of those horrors and see that my papers were in order or at least somewhat together.
The rest of the time would just be spent with those that I love, enjoying their company and basking in the warmth of family and a life well-lived.
I think I would spend a good part of that day asking forgiveness from the ones I've hurt and letting the people who have hurt me know that I forgive them.
Then I would gather my family together at our table, enjoy our favorite meal, sit back, reminisce, tell all the favorite stories, laugh and carry on and then tell my wife and 3 sons individually what each has meant to me and that I thank God for the time I was given with each of them.
Then I'd have to be typical downer dad and impart some closing wisdom on each of them which would probably amount to: "live each day like it's your last, you are never alone, look for the sacred in the ordinary, and don't fight over my stuff..."
I would make sure all the people i love knew how much. letter would be a good way, or maybe a video diary to each of them.
and i would go outside with my child and play. put him to bed, and make love for one last time with my soulmate.
now where did i put him?
:lol:
hmmmm..... I would go home one last time.
I would feel sad at first. but then I would draw, write in my blog to thank and tell each and everyone of you that I love you. I would write and song and connect that to my blog as well. Then I would spend the day with my family and friends to my favourite places. Eat alot. love alot and joy alot.
WOW this puts some real thought and effort in to mind. I would say that I would want to spen 12 hrs. with my family, being my mom, father if he ever should be a part of my life, Grandmother most indeafinatly and my sister Hannah because Live Would Have No Meaning With Out Family. For the other 12 hrs I would want to be alone with this guy named Brian because he made my life complete. I used to be so happy around him and his brother thats now my cousin and he used to make me feel like I realy existed.
I dont know. Seeing family and friends for a last time. Michelle's letters idea is good, but I would make recordings - videos or tapes - of my last messages. Do something I hadn't done before...and most of all spend time with family and close friends.
IF IT WAS MY LAST DAY ON EARTH I WOULD SPEND MY LAST 24 HOURS HAVING AS MUCH FUN AS I COULD. THATS ALL.
Most people say they would go steal thing and break the law but me, I would wan't to talk to my family and write a will to give to people that I knew. Alot of people are told taht they have a month or so to live, but they are still alive two or three years later. So even though you could be told that you only have a month or so to live, "IT IS NOT ALWAYS THE A FACT"!!
I would spend me last 24 hours on earth with the ones that I love and care about if it actually came down to it. I would tell everything that needed to be said. I would talk to everybody on the phone that I could not see, and if needed I would write all of the letters Icould so that no body would be left out
I would leave behind a message to my loved ones telling them how they had impacted my life and that I loved them. I would also try to keep them from becoming sad.
After that, I would spend as much time as I could with my most cherished loved ones and try to take one last memorable trip with them.
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