One Last Breath

Every person, whether he or she wants to admit it or not, thinks about their own mortality. You never really know how long a life one can lead as the sand in our proverbial hourglass runs out or continues to fall. Undoubtedly, death or dying changes a person to the point where one doesn't take life too seriously, but instead lives it to the fullest. Yet, it's when someone such as a friend and or a family member passes away unexpectedly that one learns to cherish the time he or she has left on this earthly plane of existence. Depending on how long each of us have left, which is unknown, a person has to go with living. Let me ask you this question, how would you spend your last days and what would be your last words?

For some people, traveling the United States, even possibly overseas and seeing the sights and/or landmarks, can give a person a sense of achievement by simply taking the initiative to pack one's bags and just see the world by either land, sea, or air. Sights and/or landmarks such as Mount Rushmore, The Grand Canyon, The Great Wall Of China, The Taj Mahal are just a plethora of attractions a person should see and experience up close and personal. It can be a truly awe-inspiring experience to just be there because you may never be able to have a chance to come back ever again. Inevitably, where there is nothing left to see, one's last words are, I've been there and done that.

Without question, we all have certain fears that one has been able to conquer. Yet, a person can't stop time from counting down, but only use it to one's advantage by facing fear eye to eye, so to speak. In a way, its like going through one's own personal fear factor; but we're not doing it for the money, we're doing it for ourselves. Doing something such as skydiving, bungee jumping, deep sea diving, climbing Mt. Everest, running with the Bulls in Spain can be scary but it can give a person such an adrenaline rush that it makes a person feel more alive and could possibly add a little more time to one's clock of life. Initially, when one's time is almost up his or her last words are. I did that and I absolutely conquered my fear.

Without a doubt, each of us would like to spend our last remaining days on God's green Earth with friends and family. If you think about it, that is the time when a person truly knows how many people care about him or her and how great of an impact/influence one has made on that particular person or persons. As embarrassing and unforgettable stories are told.shared, one will cherish it for all its worth as memories will start flooding back. Some good, some bad, some in between, but undeniably they were memories that were shared with the people who would give up their own life just to let you live. Consequently before the party is over, one's last words are, I came into the world loved and left the world loved.

Someone once said, ~Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.~ Ultimately each of us want to spend the last remaining days with that one special person in our lives. A person who you would die a thousand deaths for and though I haven't found that one special person to spend my last days, I eventually will. In retrospect, before we are physically separated from each other my last words will be, The first time I saw you I smiled, for as I am about to breathe my one last breath and see you for the last time, I smile again because I know we will see each other again.