How do you live each day as if it's your last?

Question

Obviously not trying to fit everything you want to do in your life into each day, but do you try to live in the presence of death or the acceptance of your own death? And if so, how does this change the way you do things? If you want something really badly in this life, do you go for it, even if you know you could make yourself very unhappy in the longrun if you don't get it?
How do you conduct your relationships, while living in the presence of death?Does it make it harder to explain to the people you love how you feel when you now they are not viewing the world as you view it, as a brief, tansitory thing that we can only hold onto for the shortest of whiles?

Answer 1

No, not usually. I guess it's life for most of us. In our minds, for example, we always think that someone we love will always be there, even though they may be old. Then one day, they die, and it's too late. What has been spoken and what has been done cannot be undone now.

Living as if each day is the last one is an ideal thing, but it does not usually work out in real life.

Answer 2

Knowing my last day on earth is going to be sooner than later has given me insight to really stop and smell the roses.

I see, feel, hear and think so differently now that I have a terminal illness. I don't waste a precious moment on earth...I am driven to tears (not out of feeling sorry for myself) when I hear my Granddaughter say, "I love you, Gramma!" Have I done enough to leave a lasting legacy for her? You bet I have tried to. I take in all that this wonderful world has to offer and so glad I found my truth in life and don't dwell on my regrets...
I have always given of myself to those in need and now it seems I give more than I ever thought I had to give before.....it is such a blessing to give!

Answer 3

I would live my life to fullest extent of happiness. We are all human we are prone to making unavoidable mistakes, we learn to forgive ourselves and others so that we are guilt-free; never hurting anyone's feelings intentionally to satisfy my gratification for sadistic pleasure. Love if you can, don't if you can't- or just wasting time and other's time.
With all these abovementioned, i think i'm good to go to take the first step to that ladder.

Answer 4

I opt to stay each day as if it were a continuation...that is of project to convey a sparkling attitude yet incorporating the yesterdays is part of an ongoing artwork of success. The accomplishment of dwelling.

Answer 5

Actually, the esiest way to do it is to simply ignore any possiblity of consequences to your actions. Think how you would be IF you knew for absolute certain that you would be dead before anyone could do or say anything to you about anyting you might happen to do and then do it.

Answer 6

Sex Fascination—The Disease of the Modern Age.

Sex is the overwhelming obsession of modern society. Sexual promiscuity is so unrelentingly stressed that anyone who does not appear to the highly interested in it is generally considered to be a crank. Social pressure induces people to try to maintain juvenile lustiness long after the sensual high of youth has subsided. Thus millions of people remain emotionally immature all their lives. It is a sick world.

Constant titillation of the senses, however, increasingly dulls the spirit. Thus, despite all the celluloid promises, people find themselves cheated of real happiness. In adolescence, when the senses appear to have unlimited power to invoke euphoric delights, happiness through sense enjoyment seems not only to be a distinct possibility, but the very meaning of life. But the pleasures of youth, as the poets lament, is but a fleeting frolic. The ability of the body to enjoy is like a water-laden sponge. At first, if you just pinch it, water gushes out. But as it is squeezed more and more, it gradually becomes difficult to get even a few drops of water from it.

Similarly, attempts for sexual enjoyment increasingly result in emptiness and frustration. Still, most people fail to recognize the limits of sexual enjoyment. Due to their misdirected education, they think that their lack of satisfaction with sex means there is something wrong in their approach to it. They may end up on a psychologist’s couch or reading some of the hundreds of books on “improved” sex life (Yoga for Sex, Tao for Sex, The Modern Woman’s Guide to Sex, A Doctor’s Sex Secrets, Diet for Better Sex, etc.). However, the harder they grope for pleasure, the more surely it eludes them. As they furiously try to force their bodies into giving them the happiness which they regard as a natural birthright, they may turn to frequent masturbation, increased promiscuity, pornography, varieties of perversity, and ultimately violence.

Actual civilization teaches its members to sublimate their sexual desires for higher, spiritual purposes. Modern civilization exploits people’s sexual cravings, makes a business out of it, and sends people to hell by the millions.

Seeing all this, the Vaisnavas are sorry. If only people could understand this simple fact: We are all eternal servants of Krsna. Our sexual desire is simply a perverted reflection of our heart’s deepest longings to love Krsna. If we just knew this we could all be happy. But in the darkness of the modern age it is very difficult to convince anyone that there is anything wrong with sex at all.

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Answer 7

Quite Impossible. It is only imaginary. Life is full of ups and downs and you have to climb it and you have to steep down too. Some tmes you have to be at the hills side. Here lies the beauty of life.
Cheers

Answer 8

I think you are putting to much thought in the saying. To me it means to enjoy each day, have no regrets (tell your family you love them every day if possible), and prepare for the inevitable (especially if you have children who need to be taken care of in the event of your death).

Answer 9

do the best in everything...being sensitive to the feelings and needs of other people...and keeping a good relationship with GOD.