If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
Monday, January 01, 2007
What if today were my last day on earth?


The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with the egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car - we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

So, we don't get into the habits of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically. We all need teachers in our lives.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

And facing death changes all that? Yes, you strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see things much differently.

Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.

~ Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie.

One of my new year wishes is to read books as many as possible. And today, the first day of 2007, I did it - bought two books from Kinokuniya at Bugis. Appreciate every second of 2007 and be proud of yourself at the end of 2007.

Written at 7:20 PM by Kent.
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