Musings of a Compulsive Thinker

... My Future?

Do you ever wonder, amidst worry about today and tomorrow and the rest of your life, how much longer you might have? What if the rest of your life is all of next week? Or next month? Next year? What if (God forbid) all we have is tomorrow?

In my senior year of high school, someone wrote in the yearbook, "Party forever! You can sleep when you're dead."

For those who may find this a rather impractical (if exciting) modus operandi, someone else wrote in the same yearbook, "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow."

What if?

What if you were to die today, unexpectedly, without warning: no last confessions, no good-byes, no more chances to tell your mom "I love you."

Think about that for a moment.

What would be left undone, unsaid? What did you never get around to doing?

I have plans for the future. But really, each moment is up in the air until it has passed. Maybe I should say that I have hopes for the future. That may be a more realistic statement.

In the end, I suppose, I will consider my life to have been successful if I was loved and will be missed, and if the people I love know that I love them.

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Labels: my future, philosophy, ponderings

posted by the alygator @ 12:28 PM