Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever
One of the more striking quotes I have ever come across is the title of this piece. Among the vast depository of incredibly insightful thoughts that some of our great thinkers have had over the centuries, this one somehow resonated with me.
If you follow this small nugget of advice you will certainly see the world differently. Think about it for a second. If you had 24 hours left to live, what would you do, who would you want to spend it with, what would you say? What would you think? How would you act? Or, would you waste the time focusing on all the things you never accomplished, never learned, people you never met? And now it was too late, so you spend the time you had left wallowing in your sorrow. Is that how you would want to spend the last hours of your life?
A friend of mine died of a heart attack last year. He sat down to watch TV and BAM! He didn’t know what hit him. From one moment to the next. Lights out. I started thinking about this question and wondered if he knew what was to happen the day before what would he have done differently? The unfortunate thing is he didn’t have that choice, but the rest of us do.
Life is learning. If you stop learning, you stop moving forward. You stop growing as a person. Life is made up of experiences from which we learn and you only have a limited time to make as many happen as you can. Learning as if you were to live forever is to be inquisitive about all you can. Get curious and discover. There is so much to learn, so learn as if you were to live forever.
If you keep this in mind and have the mindset that you are privileged to be here, and it could all end tomorrow, you may change your focus. You may reassess what is really worth spending your time on. Do you want to be complaining and obsessing about the government on your last day? Do you want to be preoccupied over what you don’t have or be grateful for what you do have?
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Great quote. Great picture too!
Thanks!
i think that we have to live as if we are going to die today and work hard but not for this life but for the next life.
If that is what provokes you to lead a more full life then all the better!
Who can guarantee you a full life? who can guarantee you that u will wake up tomorrow who can guarantee you that u will achieve something? Bro the only thing that can guarantee you is believe
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Yes ! Great post. There is a good one I know..How would you live if I told you you have a deadly disease ? Well guess what...you do have it, it is called aging.
Finding power in the present moment is very powerfull, plus if you live this way, you will experience so many great things, which can help you when you have a traumatic period. Baseball player Carl Erskine says, that he once visited a sermon which changed his life, it says you should live fully to collect good experiences, which can be used later. He uses them everytime he feels nervous during a game.
Thanks! Knowing it is the easy part. Applying it daily is the hard part. That is where many people lose their way.
It is hard. But knowing that you are fully responsible for you happiness - noone is coming to do it for you is a huge help when sticking to + getting rid of the "victim" state.
YES! We are definitely of the same mind about life @wanderingmind! I've always taken the mindset that I want to "be a sponge" and soak up as much knowledge as I can and learn from other's experiences as well as mistakes. We don't know what we don't know, till we learn it.
Thanks, and the beauty is, there is so much that we don't know, which makes the journey that much more interesting.