May 26, 2015 Let's say you got a letter in the mail. Inside this letter had the accurate time and date of your death, and the cause. Would you open it?
May 26, 2015 but maybe that's how you die? catch the house on fire...reading it could have prevented it.
May 26, 2015 Yes. I had a acquaintance recently diagnosed with terminal cancer and not much longer to live. Because her and her boyfriend know that she does not have long left they traveled to Italy, to visit a place they have always wanted to go, to experience their dream holiday and spend quality time together that they know they will not have in the future. As easy as it is to say live every day to the fullest, it is just not possible when you have commitments such as work to attend and the petty little stresses in life; bills, family drama, bogging you down. If my time was nearing I would want to know. I would make more of an effort to do the things I love, that make me happy. I would spend more time with those that I should, I would try to get to all of the places in the world that I continue to add to the list - because at this moment, I naively have all the time in the world.
May 27, 2015 lot to be said in that, tbh... why wait until we know our time is limited to start living life to the fullest? before you know it, you'll be 60, wishing you would have done all of these things yourself.
May 27, 2015 I would read it. The future's not set in stone, if it said something like "you'll die from lung cancer in 20 years" well, i'd quit smoking pretty fast.
May 27, 2015 I agree, but I do believe it's harder to put into practice. Needing to work to live is a major factor in that. I'm sure, if we all had the choice, nobody would work and we would all do the things that made us happy. Spending the prime hours of the day enjoying life rather than cooped up in a building, slaving away for someone else. Generally, 5 days a week, 9 - 5 are already spoken for. And then there are the daily to errands complete, cooking meals, cleaning the house ect. In order to do most of the things that I would consider living my life to the fullest I need to work to save the money. And there goes a lot of days. This acquaintance was lucky to have a lot of lovely people in their life, and so, after putting a message on facebook of her situation, they had their trip paid for in donations by friends. If I had unlimited funds and all the hours in the day to myself I would hope, that I would live a life, that whenever I went to bed, I would be happy in knowing that I could die that night having done as many of the things I wanted to do.
May 27, 2015 You, sir, just won the internet You should already know that smoking cuts your life short tbh
May 27, 2015 I think you should find a way to balance 'living life to the fullest' and live responsible/think about the future. Everybody's own choice of course but that's how I feel about it. To answer the question, I honestly don't know. I mean if it would be very soon, you can do whatever you want. But if it's far away, you don't have to worry about dying which can also lead to taking more risks etc. I also think I would burn it
May 28, 2015 It would honestly depend on my mood when I received the letter. If i were to open it though, i would try to prevent what would have caused my death if it's preventable, and start doing things I've always wanted to do before it's too late.
