The last 12 months
What would you do if...You were told you had twelve months to live
At first I would have thought that someone was playing a joke on me.
It would be difficult to accept such information.
But the end often comes suddenly, without any announcement, so this kind of information, if we knew it was 100% certain, might be easily accepted...
If only it wasn't too soon :-)
When I saw the first topic you suggested yesterday #galenkp, the first thing that came to my mind was a phenomenal movie I watched a long time ago, with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman: "The Bucket List".
I smiled at first, because I remembered their fantastic acting, but then some sadness came over me.
From the time I saw that movie (probably 15 years ago) until today, I was left, like most of us, without some important, close and loved ones, friends, relatives, family members...
I thought about what I would put on my bucket list, if I knew I had 12 months left to live... A very difficult choice... Which makes me wonder...
I am counting (on this post), in that option I would not have limitations of a health nature? So that I could move, walk, drive a car, swim without any hindrance and without anyone's help.
First, I thought of all those places I wanted to see and visit, but so far I haven't time (Paris Mauritius, New York...), of all those places I promised myself and my loved ones that we would visit together again (Italy ,Germany, France, Spain), of all those adventures I avoided doing, fearing for my safety, not to leave before time (bungee jump, paragliding, motorcycle, parachute jump...).
But, I remembered that it would be better to spend most of that remaining time with the closest people, relatives, hanging out with friends, family...
The scenario would be as follows: first, I would visit all the famous insurance companies and take out life insurance for large premiums, which would remain to my family. It's not fair, but it would be useful for those left after me... (As now I don't know when it will be the end, in 12, 24, 120, 360 or 720 months, I'm already paying one life insurance).
Next, I would make a plan for a big two-month trip around the world to visit everything I wanted to see... Probably I can get loans for the trip, because I would certainly need money :-)
On that trip I would do all the crazy things I didn't have the courage to do...
When I returned from that trip, it would be followed by hanging out with friends and relatives...
And finally, I would spend most of my remaining time with my family.
At the very end, in the last days of the twelfth month, I would be alone, went to nature, walked in the forest, in the mountains, meditate, slowly prepare for the last hour...
And the last hour spent in a place like this...
Ugh, it's really awkward to write something like this and to think about this topic...
And you should constantly think about this topic...
And live a life fulfilling everything I mentioned above, for those safe/promised 12 months.
Because in real life, nothing is certain and promised...
We turn on the alarm every night in the hope that we will wake up in the morning. And that alarm is the first signal of life and that we still have time, even for a moment...
We should travel, enjoy, help others, socialize, love, let others love us, respect us, share our time with others, to have wonderful, happy moments together so that we remain in good memory... every day that is given..
I think most of us when we knew that we only had a short remaining time to live, would do things that we didn't want to do before. It's like we are going to live our lives to the fullest and spend time with our loved ones. We didn't know when, where, and how we were going to perish that is why we should spend every minute of our lives without regrets.
Everyone has a time written down somewhere, but no one knows until when, so live with a margin...this kind of one-year limit would be a real trigger for living life to the maximum.
As we grow up we put off things we wanted to do, then we realize that time goes by very quickly, it's good to think that we have little time left to motivate ourselves to achieve those goals
That's right. one should also live in the young, current days. because of the jobs we've been doing all our lives, we plan to travel, buy a good car, a holiday home only after retirement, which is not good. do all you can now...
It will be the biggest and most painful surprise that someone will ever receive if ever the doctor give a time limit to a person, I mean, that suddenly. I think even if I know to myself that we will all end up dead in this lifetime, it will still make me depress knowing that I only have a little time left in my life. I think, most of that left time will be spent sulking and questioning heaven why it has to happen to me. Acceptance is the key, that's what they say, but, it'll take time for me to accept it. Pushing myself to enjoy the little time I have left is all I can do. But instead of going far, I'll just go somewhere with a sea where I can watch the sun while reading a manhwa or just anything. Just like the last two photos at the end here.
I've known people who have passed away and lived only three months from the time they found out they had a deadly disease to the time they died.
And all that time, they hoped that they would manage to fight the disease and live longer... But they didn't...
So these 12 months are not a short period :-(
If I knew with certainty what my last day is (100%), I would quickly accept it and live without limitations.
Three months? That's just (｡•́︿•̀｡), like they don't really have a choice but to accept it and just live that remaining life they have, that's really a depressing one.
Well, yeah, 12 is actually a long one but, if it involves death, it is really hard ro accept it.
My father went to Scotland at the end of 2019, in November, to visit his son who lives there with his family (he moved out 15 years ago). On the first of December, I am returning from the autumn vacation from Valessia, and my brother informs me that our father is ill and that he is being examined in the hospital. diagnosis - leukemia. When he was released from the hospital, he immediately returned to Serbia. Examinations and confirmation of the disease, therapy starts immediately, but he fails to fight the disease and dies in early February.
Less than three months since he found out he was sick... In that short time, between stays in hospitals, he still managed to say goodbye to the closest people from his life, although we didn't think he would leave so soon :-(
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Your list of requests or wishes is very long, of course it is what you want to do in that short span of twelve months, look how time goes by so fast, yesterday was December 31st, today is September 1st, the months go by so fast that we do not even realize it.
But the best of all what you say is this.
For me it sums it all up in terms of time in our reality.
From the beginning of the year to today, 243 days have passed. Out of that, if we don't count the weekends, which we filled with household and family obligations and some with business activities, for my soul, I lived only 15 days as vecation days... And I plan to have another 5 to 7 vecation days by the end of the year...
So 365 is quite a lot :-)
Believe me, with this kind of information (12 more months and "the end"), I certainly wouldn't go to work after the weekend... I think that such a scenario, if we knew when the game was over, would lead humanity in a different direction.
And not so great :-)
Nevertheless, there is hope for longevity and the uncertainty of some actions, something that prevents a person from doing some reckless activities, which he would certainly do if his last final moment was approaching.