Should We Live as if We Are Going to Die Tomorrow?
This comparatively ridiculous question never appeared to my mind until I read
one of Helen Keller’s masterpieces lately, in which she, as deaf and dumb writer and educationist, emphasized how we should cherish our life and be grateful every single day especially for those who have a sound body which she doesn’t have. Her words strongly set me thinking, wondering whether we should live as if we
are going to die tomorrow.
Most of questions happen to me, I easily tend to look on their bright side, this one is not an exception. Hereby, I am beginning to think it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude toward
life would precisely embody the value of life.
Life is single road. All bygones are forever bygones, never can be alive like
what is now happening or what will happen, we can only recall them solely. Then,
in order to let today, tomorrow to be one of parts of our pleasant memories, shouldn’t we do what we should do presently? We should, of course. Learning to appreciate always be kicked out of my mind but we should appreciate everything heartily we have: To appreciate parents for giving life to us, upbringing and educating us selflessly, caring for us at any time; to appreciate hard-working gardeners’ inculcation and dedication, which enable us to grow up happily day by day
along with the irrigation of knowledge, hence we become more and more erudite; to appreciate a perpetual friendship which sheerly stricken up on our sincerity,
because true friendship is worth more than money; to appreciate casual passerbies for their sweet smiles, kind words, encouraged gestures, warm helps; to appreciate sun for warmth, moon for moonlight at night, plants for providing us with oxygen, animals for keeping the firm balance of ecosystem, nature for enduing us
inspiration…… We could think of how much we should appreciate, how many the sakes to urge us to be a thanksgiver until we should die tomorrow.
Most of us, oftentimes, take life for granted. We know that clearly we must die one day, but usually we picture that day in the hidden and remote future. We yearn towards bright future urgently, but we omit the inherent element of future.
Actually future is just at arm’s length. For yesterday, today is future; for today, tomorrow is future… Each today is comprised to be future, doesn’t it? It is generally accepted that there are too many incalculable days in our long life, but there is but only day we can name it as today. We waste today means we have already wasted one day of our future; we would waste tomorrow means we would
waste another day of our future. With such awful recycling, we might cultivate
a bad habit of not treasuring every day. Further, custom is the second nature. So we go about something no-good, hardly aware of our listless attitude towards life.
Life is just like a living film, oftentimes presented in front of us, flashing
what we have done before in our mind. Also, of course, what we haven’t done but should do is occasionally flashed. We must have already regretted about we were and planned to make up them on occasion, but there is no time better than the
day before one day we must die to remember what regrets do we have for what have
done or have not done. Similarly, We have a number of sweet dreams, however, there is a very long distance between dream and reality. We strive for dreams but
once the difficulties we meet on the road to dreams, we bend easily to them, which means the substance of dreams is gradually close to that of daydreams. It might be true that only those, who live, or have lived in the shadow of death bring
a mellow sweetness to everything they do, in one way or another, to reduce the
gap between dream and reality.
The doomed man, of which some would realize the real value of life when the last day is approaching, others, however, would involve in lethargy hereby adopt the epicurean motto of “ eat, drink, and be merry.” Well, it reminds me of a very funny thing I read before. A rich old man, who has already known that he wills die tomorrow. You can never guessed what he did before one day he should die!
He dipped the honey, ate all his money piece by piece. He must be a mammonist, I
think.
Slipping by this topic with my shallow thoughts, I try to come to a decision:
the rest time of our, mostly should live as if we are going to die. Others should live like a good-time Charlie(乐天派), feeling no worries and anxieties to relax, to enjoy.
Friends, I really like to balabala with hands to try to gradually make up what
I cannot balabala with mouth, and the whole is what I now can think of regarding this absurd topic have been presented above. Whoever you are, whatever you would add to this topic will both be welcomed.
Nicole
