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How short would your life have to be before you would really start living differently today?

You often hear of someone having a near death experience and then changing their life and the way they look at it and live. Can we fully appreciate life without the near death experience?

In small scale, I relate it to having the flu. You feel like your are dying and the very next day just feeling well puts you on top of the world. The problem is that lasts a day, at most.
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How short would your life have to be BEFORE you would really start living differently today?
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trmbngrl2 | 1 year, 10 months ago
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This is an interesting question, and one that I think everyone should ponder. I myself have had a near death experience, and it didn't really change me. I thought it would, believe me. As I was half conscious in the back of a speeding ambulance, I had a revelation and vowed that I would change my ways. A few days later, after I knew I wasn't going to die, things kind of calmed down and I sort of forgot about everything I had promised myself in what I thought were my last moments.

Very disappointing, yes. I was angry with myself for not following through and changing how I treated and appreciated my own life. But once things went back to normal, I started taking everything for granted again. I guess it's just the human condition. We have to be faced with something scary and real to actually start living differently. I guess to answer your question, and knowing what I know about myself when I was faced with a near death experience, I'd have to say that I would really change my ways if I knew I was going to die within five years. Maybe even a year. Because as soon as I start to feel normal again, my selfish ways will make me forget that real feeling, the feeling that life is something to treasure, the feeling of regret, and the desire to have it all back for just one more chance.
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msmuffintop | 1 year, 10 months ago
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I had a rough time coming up and left home at 17. I there fore never really had the experience of living life differently than I wanted to. No one told me what to do. I enjoyed every minute of every day, and when it's over I'm ready to go

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bklynjs | 1 year, 10 months ago
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You should live everyday as it was your last while planning for your future. Life is always full of new experiences you should not turn them down because it may never come again.

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imogenrayne | 1 year, 10 months ago
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As a cancer survivor myself and as the granddaughter of an awesome man who lost his life to terminal cancer, I say enjoy life every day! This is my advice to all who read this!!! Don't wait until you have a bad disease to enjoy each day you are blessed with. Take time to show people how much you love them and help others less fortunate than you. Celebrate your life and make new memories, while offering to help someone in need of a friend. These little things make life precious, not money or fast cars. Cold steel and greenbacks won’t remember you the way you loved ones will! Throw the ball with your child or teach them a valuable lesson, while enjoying every second with them because you never know when your heart will stop beating. Hold your wife a liter tighter and learn more about your creator for you will account to him when you breath is finally expired. Never give up and fight for what you want, even if it will hurt like heck. Because once you die, you will not have a second chance to get things right.
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charray7 | 1 year, 10 months ago
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At the present time, I don’t feel that I am living life in a bad way. If I knew my life was ending sooner than later, I really don’t know how I would change to be a better person. I try to live my life as if it was my last day on this earth. I wish I had more money to do more with but I am comfortable where I am.

My father passed away from a heart attack at age 54 and I am 52 right now so every year I am getting close to being as old he was when he passed. I just wonder if he would known that one day after he got up and went to work, he would have a heart attack at work and die, if he would have done anything different. Maybe he would have quit smoking. I quit a year and a half ago mostly because I coughed so much and I knew that I was probably killing myself. I don’t drink so I don’t have to reform there. I guess I could try to lose weight.. again.. but if I’m going to die anyway, why would I do that? :-)
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cheapgamer | 1 year, 10 months ago
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Less than twenty years. Right now I am doing quite a bit of retirement planning. I am putting away quite a bit of money so that when I am finally ready to retire I can live comfortably and start a small business with my wife not really caring if it makes money.

With a time of fewer than twenty years, I would try to adjust my budget to retire within ten years even if it meant living more modestly. I would try to travel a bit, lodging with friends to keep costs down and say my farewells to them.

In my last year I would set up one last going away party, perhaps a renewal of my wedding vows to get the family together in one last happy get together with what little time I had left.

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