I was in the shower, then a thought struck me (you know how they always do when you're in the shower), so I rushed through the rest of my bath while the thought trickled away discreetly like sand through your fingers.
Okay this is what's left of it:
To live each day as if it was your last is something very stupid indeed. It isn't the same as living your life to the fullest, nor is it the same as the "live fast die young" mantra that some hippies live by.
Why would anybody want to live each day as if it was their last?? I would hate it. Everything would be rushed, I'd be trying to extract the essence out of everything I do, that I inevitably leave out fragments of it. The whole experience is what makes an activity enjoyable what, I'd hate to have to sample just the best of something, without having time to explore the other (albeit not as exciting) parts.
Living each day as if it was your last isn't the same as living life to the fullest. Everybody agrees that life has got it's ups and downs. Having too many good experiences in a short frame gets cloying. I would relish feeling a loss, or feeling upset every once in a while. At least it assures me that I'm capable of more than one emotion. Feeling happy alone is senseless, it's two dimensional and it'll eventually lose it's value if not granted the opportunity to be compared to something that's not as pleasant.
Live fast die young is different too. If I'm committed to living fast, I'd want to experience every single bit of life. If a normal lifespan looked like a sine curve, living fast would have the same curve, but with a greater amplitude and frequency but shorter wavelength (same energy you see, just compact). Living each day like it was my last would look like..............y=k where k is a positive real number. How stupid would your graph look hahaha so boring.
Alright tata, time to do some work.
Win the battle and win the war!!!!!!!
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