Thursday, June 29, 2006 Live Each Day Like Your Last
"If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."
I do not know from where this piece of advice originated but I am confident that many people will continue quoting it to inspire people around them. Frankly, I think having this kind of life philosophy is plain stupid.
When I first encountered this saying, I was unsure whether it encouraged or discouraged living each day as if it were my last. "...someday you'll most certainly be right" - and since I most certainly do not want to be right in this case, doesn't that mean I shouldn't live each day as if it were my last?
But since this saying is supposed to promote a positive attitude (ironic since one must pretend one is going to die tomorrow), I guess it encourages one to live each day as if it were truly the last. But what does that really mean?
If I were to die tomorrow, I'll spend half the time executing my will and the other half spending all my money in one day and having an absolutely fabulous time. In short, living life to the fullest as they call it, in one day. Is this really how I should be living every single day of my life? Is this the logical, optimum and most preferred thing to do?
I think the answer is trivial but since so many people have been telling me to live each day like my last (implying that they believe in that stuff), I must very well be insane to reason so differently from normal, clear-minded people.
