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Tstef gets it. Of course, one can't live completely as if there will be no days to follow. But its also about finding some balance. TS Eliot once wrote "where is the life we have lost in living?"
If you're really so miserable at work, but are just doing it to pay for the things you THINK you need to survive or to save for some time in the future that may never come, then maybe you need to re-evaluate your life plan. Maybe you really don't need all those material things that you think you need. Maybe you could be doing something else that you enjoy more or provides you greater fulfillment, even if it doesn't pay quite as much, and just live a simpler lifestyle. Maybe you should take at least some of that money you are saving for retirement and use it to do some of the things you want to do in life while you're still young enough to do it. Isn't that what most of us are already doing when we take these expensive trips to CR?
Henry David Thoreau wrote "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." If you find yourself doing something on your last day that you should have been doing all along (or done long ago), then you have waited too long and have already really missed out.
It would be great to spend one's final day with one's loved ones, but think how regretful we would be if we came to our final day and had not ALREADY spent so many days with our loved ones truly cherishing them and letting them know how much they mean to us. Can just one day ever make up for a lifetime of neglect or taking them for granted?
And what about spending one's final day with one's favorite working girl? That sure sounds good. Either that or feeding some other hedonistic impulse. After all at that point money would be meaningless, so you might as well spend everything you have or even write rubber checks as Scuba suggested. Right? OTOH, if everyone else knew the world was ending too then money would be pretty meaningless to them as well. What makes you think your favorita would want to spend HER last day with a john like you, even a nice one who had bought her nice things in the past? I'm guessing nearly all of these chicas would much rather be with THEIR families than with any of you guys. Sorry to burst your fantasies there.
Of course, if one were to spend the day with one's favorita then Dean's little wrinkle of finally being able to go bareback with her without any fear of catching a disease given to her by one of her many other novios or of her getting knocked up and cornering you into marriage or Ch*ld support, all sounds very good and would set that day apart from the many other days one had already spent with her.
Couldn't have written it better. The irony of the 2012 scenario is that it is not just the Mayan Calendar that ends. A computer program was run to predict the end of the world (don't ask me what criteria were used in determining the results) and it ended 12/21/2012. The I Ching, etc.. Check out Zeitgeist the movie. You can watch it on Youtube. Interesting stuff.
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