Today is the first day of the rest of your short life

another day

another day in the life

The beginning of a New Year.

A thought: “If you only had a few months left to live, what would you do with your life? Would you continue on like you are right now? Would you keep working that crap job? Would you play as many video games? Hang out with as many less than interesting friends? Drink as much or do as many drugs? Would you shop as much? Would your Lexus or BMW or Acura mean as much as it does to you now?”

I know it is hard to imagine what you would actually feel or do, unless you are in this position. But I say, act as if…….

Right now, anyone out there, act as if you only have 6 months to live. Respond accordingly. Take that trip to Spain you have waited your whole life to do. Start painting. Make that movie you were too afraid to make. Ask that woman or man to marry you. Bring home a puppy from the pound (save a life) and love it forever.

Upend and change everything in your life to fit into a 6 months to live paradigm. Everything will be different. You will be different. Make a life change. Today is the first of the New Year. No better day than today to start.

Just another day for some of us….New Years!

With only months to live. A question comes to the forefront of your mind:

How exactly do you plan to spend your last days?

Do you focus on all the things you used to? Does shopping at Crate and Barrel matter? Target? Costco? I don’t think so.

We take stock of what is important. Is that family? friends? animals? nature?

Can anything make up for the news that just came in?

Questions and more questions, with fewer and fewer answers. It is time to realize that the questions are no longer the answer. Why? How? When? are no longer pertinent.

What. That becomes all powerful. What do you focus your energy and time on. What is all knowing and all consuming.

Is there something you have always wanted to do in life? If there is, this is the time to make it happen. Really make it into something. Art, film, noise, images, writing, or anything else. It is time to make it happen.

Clearly nothing else matters now.