Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you had one week left to live, would you still be doing what you’re doing now? In what areas of your life are you preparing to live? Take them off your To Do list and add them to a To Stop list. Resolve to only do what makes you come alive.
Bonus: How can your goals improve the present and not keep you in a perpetual “always something better” spiral?
My response:
I would certainly spend my time with my family. I love them and they make me smile and laugh. I would want that in my end. I don't know that I'd eat a lot of ice cream or indulgence in a lot of other 'guilty pleasures' though key lime pie does come to mind as I write this. I am living a good life, so I have no regrets currently. Yes, I work too much according to some, but I also see the good I create and I enjoy the work. If life is about living, then I am. There can certainly be more, but I also know there could have been less if I had not worked so hard. I am where I am, have what I have, because of the choices I've made. I am not sure what I would stop, and striving for more is living to me. Preparing for life is still living.
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