A couple of weeks ago I was having a nice walk with a person I'm getting to know and we got into a discussion about death and life and life-long todo lists.
I have a bunch of todos that I want to pen cross before dying, some of them are top in the ranking, some others are silly stuff that I can even delete if I had to.
Now, during that walk the discussion gravitated towards one particular question:
Would you be in peace with yourself if you were to die tomorrow, today, now? Would your life be somehow complete if you had to leave it all of a sudden?
Man, that's a punch I was not ready to defend myself from. I feel young, I think about plans, not destruction.
But pay attention, the question is not really about self inflicted death...it's more of a car accident kind of thing.
I thought about this question a lot during these weeks, I don't have a final answer yet, although I reshaped my todolist as a consequence and it seems that no, I would not be ready for it.
If today a lorry were to crush my car as a tin can, I would probably use my last seconds to think about the entries of my todolist where the boxes are not crossed.
I now perceive this question as the fuel to get stuff done, I just hope the lorry - or whatever - will wait long enough.
Do you have an answer to this question? Do you have a life-long todolist where all the boxes are already crossed?
Are you ready for an unespected sunset?