Premise: If we don’t remember death each day, we are bound to neglect what is actually important in life, our perspective will be skewwhiff. True or false?
Please humor me by doing this experiment! 🙂 You’ll need 10 minutes or so. Get out a pen and piece of paper (or its hi-tech equivalent). Now please ask yourself the following questions, one by one, giving yourself time for each one to close your eyes and think carefully about it first, before moving onto the next question. Then write down your answers:
(1) If I was never going to die, what would I do today?
(2) If I was going to die in 50 years, what would I do today?
(3) If I was going to die in 10 years, what would I do today?
(4) If I was going to die in 1 year, what would I do today?
(5) If I was going to die in 1 month, what would I do today?
(6) If I was going to die in 1 week, what would I do today?
(7) If I was going to die today, what would I do today?
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Do the answers change? Which answer do you reckon is the most realistic or makes the most sense?
Can you work out from your answers what matters most in your own life? And what matters most to you today?
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