What If You Die Today?

A hub member asked a very interesting question . The question was 'If your doctor says you would live only for 27 days , how would you live?'.

Interesting question and very thought provoking too. Death is one thing which is sure to happen to all living beings but death is also one thing which most of humans dont want to occur to them anytime soon.

When we are kids , death is something which we dont understand. Often when grandfather/mother or someone for relative die , we are told that they have gone to god's home. When we grow up and start working , career ,marriage ,offspings continue to be our focus then when we retire and see our close friends/relatives/siblings die , we realize that sooner or later our time will come.

Post retirement , many turn spiritual(if they already were not). Prayers , visiting spiritual places become part of routine. Looking back at life , we wonder how we lived , what we could have done better. Thats how basic life runs.

I read an interesting chapter in a self help book . It does ask the reader to visualize one's funeral and does ask how do we want our colleagues, our family , our friends to speak about us , once we are gone. It does ask to visualize the event in detail. The answer we are our core values. The words which we want them to speak is what we want in life. Those things are important to us and makes us.

Suppose you learn that you are going to die today?. What would you do?. How would you behave to fellow human beings , your love ones and even your foes?. Where would you like to spend you day?. To whom you would like to call and say thank you , to whom you would like to call and say sorry?.

Well ,life is uncertain and we never know what is plan of nature/god for us?. What we can control though is setting our priorities , treating others well , give up grudges and live in peace with ourselves and others.What we can control is how we live each day and how we make every minute of ourlives count.

A motivation speakers often emphazies on gratitude list which I have already mentioned in other hubs. What I have added in that is weekend,get in touch hour. Using weekends to call few from list of all those whom you love. Its good to get in touch and say thankyou to people who have been with you and made difference in your life just by being there.

"What is you die today" is important question which can reset priorities for many.