Monday, May 19, 2008

Live as it were your last

It is hard to picture myself at ninety. I don't even know if I want to live until then. I am one of those people who does things spontaneously regardless of whether I will be happy with it one year, ten years, or 30 years from now. I know people probably think this is careless but it is me. If I had to live to be ninety years old, I would hope that my free-spirited personality stays with me the whole way. I was watching Rob and Big a couple months ago (I know you are wondering what this has to do with it but i have a point) and they went to a nursing home to give back to the community. They were all talking and there was this lady wearing this ridiculous sparkley hat and colorful outfit and over everyone talking she was screaming the song "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" at the top of her lungs. My friend looked at me and said, "I now know what you are going to be like when you get old." I laughed because it was one of the funniest things i have ever seen but the more i think about it, its probably true. I know I did not follow Pink's exercise directly because I don't really want to think about my regrets that i might make in the next 60 years, and as far as Viktor Frankl's quote I think it is ridiculous. If you are content in what you are doing when you are doing it you aren't living wrong, you might be living differently in the eyes of someone else but not wrong.

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