“What do I do? What do human beings do? They plan… and really, none of us should put anything off…or be safe. “I’ll do that next week” or “I’ll wait till next year” - nope, no good. Pensions, insurance, holidays…a massive safety net, and you never know what is around the corner. Each day should be lived ‘for the day’. But us humans don’t play the game like that…because mostly society won’t let us, and everything is designed for planning…lots of pressures too… and I cannot express how weird it feels to know that I have nothing to plan for. No house to get, no job to do, no children to have, just the day, to live. Because my time will be up a lot sooner than most, and 18 months ago I had a whole life ahead of me.
I guess a lot of people may argue my point here, but this is way I see it, with clarity. I suppose my situation is the answer to why I understand life in this way…but wouldn’t it be nice if everyone could stop and think like this, just for a moment? It makes everything you have feel very precious, because it all is, very very precious. ”
Try not to put stuff off. All those things you say you care about or really really want to do, go and do them or stop talking about them.
This post is by a friend of Emily’s, I don’t know Holly too well, but I’ve been touched by her writing, her honesty and for someone facing something I could never get close to understanding, amazing strength.
