Dear busy person,
A colleague and friend of mine just found out he has 6 months to 2 years to live.
This news could’ve just as easily been given to you.
…It could actually be beneficial for you to imagine it was.
Close your eyes. Visualize yourself in a doctor’s office after getting tests done the previous week. Today is results day. The doctor comes in and gets right to the point—no small talk. The above is the situation. And it’s said plainly and as a matter of fact. He says he’s sorry and walks out.
…What exactly were you so busy doing again?
…What was it that you were complaining about again?
…What important thing(s) did you say you were going to wait until later to do again?
The thought of death gives us the urgency to really live—whatever that means to you.
But when we bury death as an abstract, foreign concept into the deep, dark corners of our mind—we lose that urgency, don’t we?
Maybe it’s time we resurface it. Maybe it’s time we think about it again. Maybe today is a good day to imagine we only have 6 months left to live.
…Now what?