If This Were Your Last Day? Comments
If this were your last day
how would you spend it?
I know I would feel an urgency
I would want to tell those closest to me
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Only a poet can think of the shortness of life and of impending death, and describe it in such wonderful verses.
Eating, drinking and making love are all one can do, is something too strange and shocking! ! What would anyone do for their soul at the last moment of life, if they were informed earlier? Luckily the time of last moment is still kept as a secret knowing the characters of human, it seems! ! ! ! ! ! Thank you for the poem..Norah!
It's interesting VS I lived in a monastery for many years I was a spiritual seeker Now my spirituality is the present moment And the deepest gratitude for every amazing moment of existence Thank you for your comment It's all such a mystery?
There are questions that I ask people that are a window into their soul. A measure of their depth or sometimes the chance to learn something new about them or to discover and release an original wit. If this were your last day says so much about you and the last day would be filled with the things that are rich in a celebration of life. A steak, fine wine and yes a loved one....................splendid. Carpe Diem
Yes thank you Edmund I feel a heightened sense of aliveness when I think about death I want to live every moment to the hilt And with every fiber of my being.
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7/19/2025 8:12:35 PM # 1.0.0
This is very thought provoking, Norah. And I'm in agreement. If I knew this was my last day, I'd try to pack into it as much living, as much experience, as I've had in the preceding half-century plus. I do once remember someone answering a similar question with an I don't know. I always ask how much living such a person has done. An exceptional poem, Norah.
I suppose we would need to be in good health to do the things we envision. But we can always do them now MJ. What an amazing life! ! ! ! Thank you for your thoughtful comment.