In My Last Days

There is a saying "Deathly ILL" what if it were your last days, what would be on your to do list. Under these circumstances would money, bills, material possessions have the same priority as they do now. It's hard to picture if you have never been really sick and you never had the feeling that just maybe my body is at it's end. Another saying "stop and smell the roses" has been slowly taken from us as our daily lives are filled with the things we work and pay for. Bombarded by commercials and ads for things that sellers hope we will now need instead of want. As I watch people leave piles of food on there plates I remember people who have neither food or plate.

In my final days I would tell the people I've hurt, I'm sorry and the people I love, till we meet again. Some people don't have the luxury of knowing time is short, accidents have no warnings. Some people think they are exempt, they have been blessed, but in the blink of an eye that can all change then what would you say. Nothing, your gone it's over Ka-put.

What would you say in your last days? Young or old all of us will be faced with this question. We avoid it, we don't want to think about it, but it's coming some sooner than later, but it is coming. So should we live our lives now as if it was our last days? Would we be kinder more understanding and thoughtful to each other. I really wonder how much money a super rich person would give only to have a few more days.

Then this question I pose, why wait till it's you last days? Why not say what you should say today and not be remorseful if you lost the chance. Don't wait for you last days say what you need to say today. Look in the mirror, reach down inside and see if you would change. If you said yes then why wait for your last days, change today and you won't have to worry if it's your last day.

In our last days what would we do? We all have a tendency to say I should have or could have, but that's water under the bridge. There are four stages leading up to the last days and they are:

• Realization - something in me is changed, not as it has been
• Anger - why me

• Resistance - I am going to fight and beat it

• Acceptance - submission to reality

Recently the passing of Randy Pausch Carnegie Mellon Professor, Author of 'The Last Lecture,' Succumbs to Cancer at the age of 47. If there was anybody who could beat the last days it surely would be him.

Randy received a lot of attention because of ABC, but we each have our own last lecture that won't end up on ABC, what would you say? Could we handle it as positively as Randy did. Granted, we have no idea what his lifestyle was and could it have led to the cell destructive cancer.

When we finally accept our body is at risk and final days are near what would you do differently. Maybe the better question is why not do now what you would do then. Life is finite, a beginning and a end as we know it. Is the purpose really to accumulate as much "stuff" as possible or wake up eat, go to work then eat and go to sleep over and over and over again. Is this man's attempt to redesign the purpose for existence? It seems so because masses in the industrialized nations are doing it.

So the question stands what would you do in your last days? Who cares what condition the world is in you are out of here. Who even knows you exist only a hand full of people compared to the 6 billion or so that our on this planet.

I propose this to you, touch who you can while you can before your last days. Those few you touch will touch a few more and the matrix will grow. Most of us won't get the exposure Randy did from ABC, but realize that just maybe your purpose is not to touch millions, but it is to touch a few who never saw Randy. Then in your last days you won't have to be remorseful of what you should have done because you already did it. Then the answer to what to do in your last days will be easy.