If I had twelve months to live :Week 169

Hello to all the nice community @WEEKENDEXPERIENCIAS today I will participate in the initiative created by @galenkp where he exposes several topics, the ones I liked the most was:You were told you had twelve months to live.

If you knew I was going to die in 12 months, what would you do with the rest of my life? Such a profound question that makes me meditate. Perhaps, if you knew I was going to die, I would feel overwhelmed, sad and afraid. I would get a lump in my throat. I would cry silently for several hours and then dry my tears. I would sort out my emotions and ideas and put aside frustration and unanswered questions. I would make the most of the time I have left by sharing with what I love the most, which is my family.

Especially with my children, my partner and my sisters. I would take every moment every hour every day to tell them how much I love them and how grateful I am to them. Maybe I would do all those things I stopped doing over time, things I enjoyed as a child, like going to the river and dipping in the waters, laying on my back while gazing at the sky, hiking the mountains of my village and picking coffee. But what I would enjoy most would be a good cup of coffee with my partner while watching my children play. I would motivate my children to be good people, I would gather all my family and friends to enjoy them until my last breath and take that beautiful image in my retinas.

I would try to overcome all those things that scare me, like fear of heights. I would try to overcome my fear of toads and insects, because in the end, fear or no fear, I'm still going to die. I would try to travel more and see more tourist places in my country. My dream has always been to visit several countries, but I have only traveled to 7 countries in America. I hope one day to travel to another continent. I think the problem is that we see death as the end, as something bad and terrible that everyone knows it will come, but no one wants to meet it. But instead of seeing it like that, we could see it as a rebirth, where we lose the physical body and are reborn in a new world.

One does not need to enjoy the day to day only when one year of life is left, but we should enjoy every day because life itself is beautiful. Many times it is necessary to go through pain and trials to realize how valuable and precious life is. It is amazing how we assume that we will always have more time to do the things we love, and many times we put them off thinking that maybe tomorrow will be a good day to do them. Even our family and friends who are no longer with us are a clear example of how ephemeral our lives are, as short as the passing of a shooting star in the blink of an eye. We only understand the value of life when we lose our loved ones and those beautiful moments shared with them become precious memories.