If this was your final day...

.Personal Development
life has become and drift along without stopping to look at what is important.

Life can be turned upside down in an instant. We all assume that at the end of each day we will be a day older but little else may have changed. In that same day, however, I may have had to break terrible news to some people and certify others dead - sometimes expected, sometimes not. One of worst memories I have is of having to tell a wife that her husband had been killed in a horrific car accident. This was bad enough, but the double tragedy, and one she has never come to terms with, was that the last words they had said to each other were angry and spiteful. He had left for work rushed and harassed, and a minor point of disagreement had grown into a full-blown argument. Harsh words were said, and both sides went their separate ways in very bad moods. As the day had gone on, she realized how silly the whole thing had been, only happening because everyone was stressed. She had planned an evening reconciliation with a romantic meal and was looking forward to seeing him and making up as they always did. The next time she saw him was in a mortuary.
Several months later, a jack-knifing lorry cut through my car, with me and my children in it, at a combined speed of over 100 miles per hour. I will never know how we survived, but my children did not have a scratch on them and I came home to my wife that night. Who knows why my patient is a widow and my wife is not? Without being morbid, we need to remember that life hangs by a thread for all of us and so make sure there is as little unfinished business or hostility in our lives as possible at the end of each day.
We often spend most of our time being busy for the sake of it. We know there are letters to be written to friends, quality time to be spent with the family, and things we want to say to our parents but never have. Although we realize this, there is always tomorrow and tomorrow can wait. We shrug our shoulders at how busy

If you knew this was your last day on earth, write down all the things left unsaid or ignored that you would want to say or do.
Work out what is stopping you from doing them.
Ask yourself the question 'Why shouldn't accidents happen to me?'
When you know the answer to that question, do something about the list in front of you.
Life hangs by a thread. Ask yourself, if you were to die tonight, what has been left unsaid or unfinished that you would want to change? 'Carpe diem' — seize the day.

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