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If you had a year left to live, what would you do?

1166 sats \ 22 comments \ @ek 26 Feb AskSN

I don't really know how to answer that question except to focus more on doing what I wanted to do anyway, and I think that's a good thing. Isn't it like a compass that gets confused when you've already reached your destination?

Or maybe I just haven't taken the question seriously enough yet.

What about you?

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166 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 26 Feb

Ensure my affairs are in order and spend time with my family. Write a book of life lessons for my kids since I won’t be around to help guide them. Try to enjoy my remaining time and not spend the year stressed about the inevitable.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 26 Feb

Ditto what @grayruby said

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 26 Feb

Once in a blue moon I have something clever to say.

130 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Feb

Spend as much time with my daughter as possible.

Use up all my accumulated leave.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 26 Feb

I do my best to live every day as if it were my last, and as if I lived forever, simultaneously.

Sometimes I need reminders of that. But mostly I live by it, truthfully.

That being said, if I knew there was exactly a year left, I would focus more on spending time with family, on writing and on making music, and perhaps less on earning money, working out, consuming ephemeral media (social media, YouTube videos & podcasts first and foremost).

I would not worry about the future. I also would have no hopes about the future. I would be fully present. Again, this is how I'm trying to live my life now, but as with most good things, it's all way easier said than done - especially when you know you have to put food on the table. When you know you want to start a family. When you know you want to provide value to the world. Those wishes, while normal and in most cases welcome, inevitably take us away from the present. And they take us away from actually leading with love & intuition, instead of fear & logic. Because wanting something is not only an ambition and a drive, it's a fear. The fear of not getting it. Of not achieving it.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @kurszusz 26 Feb

Hmmm...good question... I think I would make a "travel list", and I would travel together with my wife and kids... And I give my private keys to my son, with the last advice to not touch the wallet in the next 10 years :)

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @redlight_pleb 26 Feb

Ironically I feel like it would be a peaceful year - due to the certainty. It goes back to live every moment like it’s your last.
No anguish over the many “whatifs”.

So: Love fully, omnidirectionally. Collate your thoughts into a journal / book for your people to contemplate. Spend as much time with your people Do something for you - walk that month long trail, drive a car around a track, live!

42 sats \ 5 replies \ @Aardvark 26 Feb

It would be really difficult because on one had I'd want to work enough to put as much money away for my wife as possible. On the other hand I wouldn't want to spend my last year alive at work.

I would definitely tell everyone how much I love them. I would make sure that everyone knows that I don't hold any grudges for anything and I forgive them for everything.

I'd be very worried about the people I was leaving behind.

42 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 26 Feb

If you have good life insurance you shouldn’t have to worry too much about slaving to make sure you leave enough behind.

I agree with that last comment. I would be really worried about my kids growing up without me.

40 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark 26 Feb

Yea, your right, it guess I'd load up on life insurance.

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 26 Feb

Gotta load up before you get sick. Both my wife and I have pretty significant life insurance policies. Not enough that it is worth it for her to take me out though. Haha.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 26 Feb

Maybe I just won't die..

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 26 Feb

Good plan.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @dontforgetthekeys 26 Feb

Same Same - all we really have are 24 hours at a time.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sasasuina 26 Feb

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 26 Feb

Most likely absolutely nothing I wouldn't be doing otherwise.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @dot 26 Feb

This experience has been a fascinating one. I now see my family with a softer, more relaxed perspective and will always cherish the moments spent with those around me. Perhaps I’ll take more photos with everyone and smile a little brighter so I can look back on them in my final days.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwapMarket 26 Feb

same as now, except get my affairs in order for easier inheritance

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @MANI 26 Feb

Live the year left....

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @User21000000 26 Feb

Try my best to set up my family for success hand over my keys to the castle and be as present as possible and drain all my leave at work to maximise my time with family

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 26 Feb

I'd at least be more present, spend more time with people, and make sure I tied my loose ends into pretty bows.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @userbob6 26 Feb freebie

Being given a number to count down from it's terrifying. Suddenly everything you may have had planned for the rest of your life has to get crammed into one year, so naturally some stuff is gonna come flying out from the sides. Might need to cut come things to prevent your camel from bulging as you pass through the needle. I would be reading Bibles, bhagavads, talmuds, korans, talking to Palm readers, calypso make sure im right with Papa Legba, etc. And maybe somehow do it in a way that i can keep stacking because i want my kids to have more than they need to get through life and get more than their kids need.