If You Had 100 Days To Live, What Would You Do?
One of the few certainties in life is your mortality.
No matter how money you make, how much land you own, or how much power you accumulate, one day you'll die.
It's a sobering thought. If you're like me, one you put to the back of your mind. Considering your mortality is uncomfortable. It's easier to live in the moment and leave those thoughts to one side.
When you don't know when you'll die, this is common. But what if you knew you had 100 days to live?
Suddenly, your life comes into focus in a way it hasn't before. Your mortality is more real than it was before.
Maybe you'd write the novel you've had in your head for years. Perhaps you'd take an around the world trip. Or maybe you'd spend more time with your loved ones before you kicked the bucket.
Scarcity of time forces you to focus on what's most important to you. When you have too much time, it's easy to postpone your dreams into the future.
Life is short. It's easy to forget this when the spectre of death seems far away. But when it's close. When time is scarce. We have a remarkable capacity to focus on what's important.
Even if it's just a thought experiment, the answers you give to the above question are instructive. They indicate what you'd like to do, but for whatever reason, have never done.
Whatever these answers are, if you're willing to pursue them in your last days on Earth, maybe you should follow them today.
So with 100 days to live, what would you do?
Further to my earlier post, I do have one more thought - it is easy to say what you want to do, but when you can and if you can are very different words, and its harder to put those words into action if you have 100 days to live. Maybe we might do something completely different, that is not on our bucket list, a chance to be alive, to do things out of your comfort zone. We will not know. We do not know when, where and how we will leave this earth. We just have to enjoy life and make each day special. Life is a blessing, we need to make the most of it and act as if we dont have much time on this earth, because truthfully, we do not know the future....
100 days seems like a lot, but it is not actually. If I had 100 days to live, I would do the following if it is possible:
- Make sure my mother is okay and set up for the future.
- Learn how to drift a car and do certain stunts in a car.
- Test drive classic and sport cars.
- Meet up with friends in London and go to places I have not been before - new coffeeshops, parks, outdoor cinemas, festivals.
- Travel to Ireland, Wales and Isle of Man as I have always wanted to go.
- Travel with mother to as many countries as possible. Take a cruise to exotic destinations. Eat different foods, experience life in different countries.
- Travel abroad to visit friends and family and say goodbye to them.
- Visit the wonders of the world with my mother ( the list keeps changing every year)
One can visit many places in the world and still time is ticking on your life. If I could not visit any places in the world, then I would rather just be in one place, ideally looking out towards the sea with my mother by my side until the time comes to leave this earth.