Wednesday, 24 April 2019

How would you spend your last day on earth?

Just imagine this. It's the apocalypse. It could be a zombie apocalypse? It could be a meteor from outer space? Maybe 'Water World'? Leaving in a spaceship to colonise another planet? We've destroyed the earth ourselves through using too many green house gas emissions? Whatever! It's the end of the world. You have one last day to do as you wish, eat what you wish and live how you wish because tomorrow the earth wont exist any more. What would you do?


Well I know perfectly well that I would want to spend it with my family and my cats. There's always this niggle, though, that if you have children who have partners, which parents and family do you spend that final time with? It's a bit like Christmas, without another year to do it differently. You can't chose one set this year and another next year. So a mass family party then? Hmmm, maybe not quite what I'm thinking of really. You'd want to be with those you love. Oh and I'd certainly not be going to work! I'd want it to be peaceful, to listen to music, to chat and just be with those people. Oh and I'd take photos just in case, you know, it's not really the last day on earth!

I'd like a simple cheese omelette with hot toast and black coffee for breakfast please. I'd like to go for a walk on the beach, and then go for a walk in the countryside. Maybe take a picnic for lunch, and just sit and contemplate the wonder of the surroundings. Then I would want to go home and cook an amazing meal, and drink some very good expensive wine. I think I would like to have some garlic prawns with crusty bread for starters. Lots of garlic because you won't be blasting anyone with stinky garlic breath the next day! Warm crusty bread dripping with fresh butter. Then a really good beef roast dinner. Lots of Yorkshire puddings and loads of good gravy. Plenty of vegetables, not forgetting the horseradish sauce. After that I'd eat some  sort of rich cream and raspberry gateaux thing, and after that...well some fabulous blue cheese, crackers and grapes. I'd probably be feeling rather unwell but hey it won't matter. Hopefully I'd sleep through the apocalypse? 

Actually all this is slightly morose but some people have to make this decision. People who are seriously ill. Those on death row. They don't get to spend it how they want but they usually do get to eat a final last meal. How could I really choose my last meal? If I had the choice I've stated, all my four cats would be fighting me for the prawns and Dylan cat would demand the beef off my plate. How could you chose that meal, honestly? There are so many lovely foods I would want to eat, and there's no way you would want to chose something and then regret it afterwards, thinking you should have chosen something else. I'm a bit like that with takeaways and restaurants! I suppose that's why I get Neil to order something different from me.....I get to try his too!!

I'm sure there are some people who would want to do lots of mad never been done things on their final day, so I am probably quite boring in my choices? There are also some people that would probably go off the rails and do something wicked, hence staying at home for me. It would be safer. Then, and this also sounds really morose, I would want to take something to make me just 'slip away'. To be in peace and not know the end would be my preference. 

But hey, this is simply make believe! This is just supposition and one scenario that is highly unlikely ever to happen. But maybe we should spend each day like it could be our last? Saying 'I love you' to those that matter. Having fun. Enjoying life. being true to ourselves. Mind you if the scientists carry on the way they are doing with their experiments we may see that zombie apocalypse happen after all. Yes, I think maybe I'd just lock the doors and go to sleep.....after drinking that expensive wine of course. 

https://www.quora.com/If-today-were-the-last-day-of-your-life-would-you-want-to-do-what-you-are-about-to-do-today

https://everydaypowerblog.com/if-today-was-your-last-day/









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