The 7 things we should all do before we die
by: E.B. Johnson
Death is a familiar specter in life. It enters our lives the moment we’re born and haunts us until the final moment. We spend hours and years of our lives doing anything we can to stave off death, but it’s always there; lurking just around the corner.
Being so familiar with death, we’re constantly faced with the question: What would I do if this were my last day on Earth?
Thinking of your final moments isn’t all doom and gloom. When you consider the last ticking of time, you consider the things that matter most in your life. To live a life fulfilled, you have to embrace the idea that death is always just around the corner. Learning to live each day as if it were your last allows you to accept that death is not only inescapable, but also inevitable, and it allows you to embrace some core truths that can transform the quality of your life.
If this were your last day on Earth, what would you do? Would you spend your time traveling or spend it doing the things that mattered with the people that mattered? Whatever the plan, there are some crucial obstacles we all should conquer before we pass into that great beyond.
You could waste your final moments doing more of the same, or you could spend your final moments doing something exceptional. Living in the moment and treating each day as your last means incorporating that exceptional into the fabric of our everyday lives.
We allow the fear of rejection hold us back from so many beautiful things in this life.
Rejection is terrifying and the idea of it is daunting, but it doesn’t make our egos nearly as vulnerable as we pretend it does. We must learn to move past our rejection hang-ups and learn to open ourselves up to the possibilities by speaking our love into existence.
Gathering just a few moments of courage could open up the doors to the possibilities of a lifetime. Rather than letting that wonderful person go, tell them how you feel and give your love power by giving it a voice.
When we tell people how we feel, we make it easier for them to tell us how they feel; and we open up a doorway into opportunity that would not otherwise exist. Even if they don’t reciprocate the feelings, chances are the other person will be so flattered that they’ll appreciate the honesty anyway. You never know unless you give your love a voice, so speak your passion into existence.
If it was your last shot at life, chances are you would spend some time making amends with the people that you’ve wronged. The thing about apologies, though, is that you have to learn how to apologize to yourself too.
Apologies aren’t just for the other people we’ve wronged. They’re for the hurts and the damage we’ve caused to ourselves too.
You have to apologize to yourself for all the times you didn’t listen to your truth; for all those times you lived unauthentically or not in the moment. Apologies are meant for hurt. All hurt. So they have to be applied to all the injuries we’ve caused to ourselves and others on every level.
Do not apologize for things that aren’t your fault, but take responsibility for the wrongs that happened on your watch. We don’t get to choose if we’ve hurt other people or not. Listen to others (and yourself) with an open heart and and open mind. Embrace the hurt and make amends where you can.
It’s easy to stew and brood over the people and situations in our lives that disappointed us, but it’s better to be thankful — for it is those disappointments that are the catalyst for our change.
Be thankful for the things that make you who and what you are, be they good or bad. The people and the things that break us are also the things that make us beautiful and strong. Everything in our life serves a purpose and everyone plays a role. Like a sword, we are forged in the fires of adversity and it is these flames that make us whole and sparkling.
Understand your feelings and embrace them for what they are, even as you embrace the people and things in your life for what they are: a learning experience.
We can think through things until we’re blue in the face but it hardly ever changes our feelings and it never changes the way things are.
Living in the moment as if it were your last means embracing things as they are an understanding that whatever happened, happened.
We get caught up in our delusions and convinced of our sovereignty so much that it makes us fixate and dwell on the things we can’t control. When we remove ourselves and view things from a different perspective, however, the situation looks a bit different and we can see things for what they are.
A happy life isn’t one that is free of sadness and pain. A happy life is one in which we can embrace our sadness alongside our joy. Negative things happen, no matter what we do, so it’s best to accept it and move on with the knowledge that we can make things better the next time — if we get a next time.
Our fear of rejection and our history of pain can often cause us to lose touch with who we are on the inside. When our egos are damaged we can clam up and forget to let our inner beauty shine. Before we leave this coil for the next we have to remember to be our authentic, beautiful selves in everything that we do.
When we lose sight of the things we love in life, we lose sight of ourselves. Reengage with your passions to get back in touch with the authentic things that make you, you. Savor the seconds and know that every time you uncover something that makes you light up, you’re getting back in touch with who you really are.
Only when we can be authentic in everything we do can we find happiness and build the relationships that make our lives worthwhile.
We often underestimate the power of leaving our legacy in writing, but it’s one that shouldn’t be overlooked.
People have a strange tendency of only taking note of the important things once the teacher is gone. Leaving your legacy in writing will allow others to learn from your feelings, perspective and experience in a way different from any other. When you share the gift of experience, you share the gift of knowledge.
If it was your final moment on this Earth, would you be focused on doing everything you could or saying everything you could? For me, it’s the latter.
Letters have a way of carrying our words and imparting them in a much stronger way than we can do on our own. When we write letters to those who have helped us (and those who haven’t), we are communicating in a million other invisible ways that are so much more powerful than simply speaking.
Write letters to the people who have made your life better and made your life worse. Send them; don’t send them — but be honest about your feelings and be honest about the impact the person has made on your life. There is something that is incredibly fulfilling about reaching out to those that have touched our lives. When we do it before it’s too late, we have the power to enact incredible change in not only our lives, but the lives of the people around us.
Life is as uncertain as a journey at sea. One moment you’re sailing along peacefully and then the next thing you know you’re in a gale, searching desperately through a storm that drags down into the murky deep.
When we learn to live our lives as if each day is our last, we can get in touch with the things that fulfill and add meaning to our existence. Reaching out to those that touch us and learning to live authentically in each moment are just a few of the ways we can learn to exist in the present moment and transform our experience here in the day-to-day.
Life is a long journey, but it can often end before we know it and before we’re ready for it to. Avoid regret by living every moment as if it was your last and you’ll find the true beauty that’s waiting for you just around the bend.
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