With all due respect to Days of Our Lives…
As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today
Is there anything that is always at the back of your mind?
That sounds incredibly morbid, but death is always at the back of my mind.
I’m 51 years old. The old man died when he was 67. On both sides of my family there is the known history for either heart disease or cancer. I once jokingly said that he and I I’m about a 77% chance of knowing exactly what’s going to get us; and a rough idea of about when.
More than death itself, I think what frightens me is thinking about the lack of time that I probably have left on this earth. I’m fairly certain that I will live longer than the old man did. But how long? Even if I were to pass at 70, that’s another 19 years. 2006 was 19 years ago. I still think about things that I did 19 years ago as if it was yesterday. Hell, I’m of the generation where we still think that the 1980s was 20 years ago!
My point being that however much time I have left in this world will probably feel like it’s going to go by in a flash. I’m not ready. I feel like I still have way too much left to do in this world. More than 20 or 30 years worth. so like the old saying goes, I think I need to make my days count, rather than counting my days.
And I swear: this really is something that is only at the back of my mind. It’s not something I think about all the time; just when I start doing real deep dives on the subject, like right now.
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