One Year Left to Live

Thought exercise—what if you have only one year left to live? How does that reframe things for you? It makes things much more immediate. It makes you realize how amazing the present moment it is, to be alive! I felt this way when my father was diagnosed with blood cancer and given six months to live. I was shocked, and so was he, and the reality was that he was gone in two months, not even six. Every time that I was able to visit him, which wasn’t as much as liked due to him not feeling well, it felt like a gift. I’d go through a roller coaster of emotions—from facing his death to being so thrilled to see him one more time. How many “one more times” I had left, I didn’t know, but for each one I was deeply thankful.

The truth is we have no idea how much time we have left—one day, one month, one year, ten years—we just don’t know. Nor do we know how much our loved ones will be here—one day, one year, or thirty years. Again, we just don’t know. So how can we let death motivate us to truly live life? To internally free ourselves to be present and high vibrational? Can you imagine if this situation was true for you (which it is) and let it infuse your choices?

Soul-Prompt: What if I only have one more year left to live, how would I live it? What attitude would I take? How would I express myself and to whom?