I would not want to know. because it would effect my whole life, like waiting for it to happen. It would be bad because you would have a date to do it all. rather it just happen.
I'd want to know but only if it was when AND where.
I'd then know how long I had to get as far away from that place as possible !
Nope, I wouldn't want to know.
If I did, would it alter how I spent my last days? You betcher!!
I would contact anyone I felt I'd ever hurt, used or disappointed, and apologise. Clean the slate and all that.
I'd then find some cave where I could go, sit, think and get my own head in order, so that I might go 'at peace with myself and the world' and not:
'Rage, rage against the dying of the light' (Dylan Thomas).
I'd plant as many trees as I could physically manage.
I'd finish writing my books
I'd walk as much of Shropshire as time allowed
I'd write individual letters to all my family to explain how much I loved them, and how proud I was of them, and that they mustn't be sad because I was living on, in them.
I wouldn't tell my friends, but would spend as much time with them as I could, without the awkwardness and restraint that their knowing would bring.
I'd listen to an awful lot ofTallis
I go and see as much art as I could
I'd read through as much Shakespeare as I had time to
I wouldn't miss another sunrise until the big day came
But when it came, I'd rush the bastard, head on, and laugh with joy...
So, tell me my friends, why don't I do that now??
(answers on a postcard please...)
For me it has to be that I dont want to know. As I reach my mid forties and bits and pieces of me have started to not work as they should or at the very least complain when I ask them too, I have started to think of how vulerable I am and how very very short our lives are. I know that I have so much more to do yet dont know what those things are which makes very little sense but there it is.
As a couple we are now nearing 30 tears together and are still very much each others best friend and each others rock. I am blessed with a family that is full of laughter, full of love for each other and is not something that I am ready to relinquish.
At this time I want to go on and on and whilst this attitude may change with circumstances and experiances yet to be uncovered I would hate for my hopes to be blighted by any prior knowledge.
Our lives as a family have no grand plan and bumbles along in its own happy way, aided by blisssfull ignorance of what the future holds in store for us and I for one want to keep it that way.
I was talking to a female colleague at work last week who has a friend in a hospice with only a few weeks left to live. This friend is only in her twenties and I couldn't imagine doing some of the things I was told she was doing: Arranging her own funeral, ringing people up to make sure they could make it to the funeral, writing out 18th and 21st Birthday cards for her daughter and giving them to a relative to pass on at the appropriate time, writing farewell letters to all the people she knew.............
Nope, I don't want to go there. Surprise me.
Steve
LIVE EACH DAY LIKE ITS YOUR LAST... CAUSE ONE DAY IT WILL BE
Thought id have a bash,,,,
Thursday, May 10, 2057
n i will be 75ish so not bad i guess!!!
and at the time of going to post thats
1,674,625,538 seconds left to live
sarge
I hope you have some young recruits in training...? Who'll guard the place?
Not for me thanks either - I daren't even follow that link :shock:
MrFC - I think you hit it on the head, it would take all the spontaneity out of life. I just realised that as well as the fact that it would be very scary to find out it was soon, if it turned out I had another 60 years, I would get even lazier and more complacent than I am now...
*summons up effort to hit the 'submit' button*
I tried the death clock thingy. At first I was going to live unil a ripe old age of 52!?
I thought that was a little too young for me, so off I go and asked for another opinion. Ah, that's better. 87 and die the day before my birthday. I must of had a party early.
I think the probably will live forever, not in the sense as Venus is wanting but within some obscure piece of work. Something that can and will change peoples perception on something. I'll be buggerd what though.
I would like to know when I will pass on. I'm a firm believer on re-encarnation and I believe I have been kind and helpful to all I meet and see so the next life shall be a step upwards. I don't think I would change the way I would live my life. I am happy that I can bring a smile to my firends and families faces.
I'd take no notice of the stupid death clock. I just tried a relative in the clock and it told me she'd died in 1975. I am so glad it was wrong. I have learnt so much from her, have cared for her for over 6 years. I love my 91 year old Nan and thats where I am off to now.
I don't want to know. I'm scared of dying and not seeing my children turn into men as it is. I tell them I love them and how proud they make me all the time. I tell my best friend I love her almost every time I speak with her and make sure my friends know I care about them a great deal. Hopefully I won't have hurt or offended too many people.
But knowing when my time would be up would change the person I am. Good or bad, I don't want to do that.
Dawn :silly:
I dont know the exact date and time , but i know my death will only happen at the gathering of the clans , if another immortal beheads me preventing the quickening .
There can be only one !
G