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Do you live like it could be your last day?

Sometimes I think of that song Live Like You Were Dying by Tim McGraw. With my dad's aggressive sudden illness and passing this year, and now my neighbor today passing, I sometimes think more often, when is my time? I'm 44 but who knows if something happens ? My dad got aggressive cancer, what if I do too? I don't take many risks at all and I'm barely surviving due to chronic PTSD. I really want to start living, but it's difficult with a chronic mental health issue, and no job.
Do you live in the Now? Live for today and try to take risks? Or feel you're just surviving?
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Baybreeze · 41-45, F
@Dainbramadge That is so truly kind , thank you for such a gracious compliment. 🌹
And I appreciate you offering to chat about any of these issues too.
Dainbramadge · 56-60, M
@Baybreeze :-) I know I am a bit of an odd ball but I really do have a lot of life experience with way to many mental health issues than I care to admit. LOL
I am going to try to work on that song of yours, Phil Collins, tonight.
I have already saved your vocal track and ran it through the mixer and added reverb and some filters to take the open mic hiss out.
It turned out real good.
Also it sounds like you keep pretty good time which is good but not a must.
I looked that song up and remembered it but had to get some music for it for some stupid reasons I could ramble on for hours. LOL
I have a lot going on right now and am looking forward to avoiding the stuff I need to get done attempting to add my guitar to your vocal track. :-)
Baybreeze · 41-45, F
@Dainbramadge Wow awesome!! That's so uplifting to hear🙂 It means a lot.
I can't do that. I'm definitely just surviving on the hope of a better tomorrow. It's really hard due to my chronic physical illness too. It's incurable and keeps degrading as time goes by. I think by the time I get somewhere better in life my illness would be in it's last stages and that idea is not easy to live with. Sometimes I'm not sure why I'm even still alive.
Baybreeze · 41-45, F
@PiecingBabyFaceTogether What I mean is saying yes to things, situations or activities instead of no like so many of us do, out of comfort or fear, Bec we all don't know what our timeline really is...
Baybreeze · 41-45, F
@PiecingBabyFaceTogether I Def do understand some events might be tricky to put into fruition with your condition but you are one awesome dude! I see you saying I'm going to meet so and so at a cafe etc..thats more than what I do, and I'm aspiring to try those things!
Sapio · 51-55, M
I used to live like that when I was living a fast life. Now I look forward to a better tomorrow.
Baybreeze · 41-45, F
@Sapio I don't mean living fast or risky, but rather trying out new things and not putting it off until tomorrow, because we never know when our time is up.
Sapio · 51-55, M
@Baybreeze I see. Well, I haven't tried new things in a while. I'm not putting it off. I just haven't tried. However, there's one old thing I have to reacquaint myself with, and that is fitness. I guess I have put that off.
eyeno · M
Believing in God, where He leads me I follow

jackjones68 · 51-55, M
I do. Through previous events, dont save it for a rainy day. Live it for the sunnier days
ninalanyon · 70-79, TVIP
You don't have to take a lot of risks to enjoy life.

I agree that there i something to be said for living each day as though there will be no more. My wife and I put off things, planning to do things when I retired. Then she got cancer and all those plans were pointless as she died five years before my retirement date.

So look at it another way, by putting off doing whatever it is you want to do you are actually risking more than by doing something sooner.

We are all dying, some of us sooner than others but one thing you can be sure of is that the older you get you will have less time, health, and energy available to do those things you've been waiting to do.
Dainbramadge · 56-60, M
@ninalanyon Well said.

I myself adopted, recklessly I will add, the philosophy "nothing ventured nothing gained" a while ago and have done some really messed up stuff that is more fun to share with buddies than anything I succeeded at. :-)

The longer I live like that the more the phrase " Life is too short .." hits home.

I am focused on that topic today and am thinking of making a post about it and just realized that if your going to live your life with no restraints and no boundaries, you better be a good person at heart. :-)
PatientlyWaiting25 · 46-50, F
That was me around 10 years ago. But too many things have happened for me to continue to believe that there isn't a spiritual side to this world so I am getting to know Jesus. Things that would have caused me a lot of anxiety do not have the same hold over me as they used to. Life isn't perfect, there's always pain but with God, you don't have to do it alone. Xx
@PatientlyWaiting25 I agree with that
durinsBane1983 · 46-50, M
you are quite right, no one is promised tomorrow, live in the day your in, as is a traditional saying in our family, anyone could go at anytime.. tomorrow isn't guaranteed to anyone.
surviving.....barely
IMHO you have made much progress in being more open with your feelings... on SW for sure.

44 will be the starting point for plenty of exciting years to come... 👍🏻
Baybreeze · 41-45, F
@rinkydinkydoink Ty so much 🌸
GoldnJulz · 46-50, F
I have lived in the now. I have prioritized my now vs my not promised tomorrows. I enjoy that approach to life but I don’t think it’s for everyone.
Very sorry for the loss of your father as well.
Musicman · 61-69, M
Oh heck no! I haven't done that in a few years.
I am constantly living in the present, going with the flow. Testing my boundaries with no regrets. It is how my life should be lived
Thatsright · 61-69, M
I try to speak to people like it could be either of our last day(s). Or the last person they ever speak to. I developed that from a discussion on EP.

 
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