Today Is Your Last Day, At Least Until Tomorrow

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The cliche 'live every day as if it was your last' is not only pop-motivational garbage, but it's very confusing. Exactly what is the context of your last day, in this scenario? If it's my last day because I'm going to die in a car wreck, guess what, I'm just not going to get in a car. If it's my last day because I'll be poisoned by something I ate, I'm drinking my meals every day, from now on. If it's my last day on my death bed, you know what? I'll go ahead and stay in bed.

I've noticed a bulk of the people who say or share the saying often use it as an excuse to do things that are dangerous, anyway, which makes me question their motives for saying it. Are they saying, "Try to die every day by doing deadly things. It's not suicide if you're enjoying it."

Because, the command is to live every day. Not tomorrow, not some days, not in a month or two, but EVERY day. So, according to the command, you have to choose something to do, every day, to either avoid what is going to kill you that day, or the one thing that's going to work while the others didn't. Aim high.

Approximate conversations:

"Hey, it's 11:28. Are you coming in to work today, or what?"

"Nope. Not a chance. I was on my way to work until some guy on the radio told me to live like I'm going to die today, so I took it as fair warning that something's out to kill me. I freaked out and came back home. If something's going to kill me, that means I can't leave the house, I can't turn on anything that requires gas or electricity, I can't use water for anything, and I can't eat. So, my grandma's coming by to drop me off a case of meal-replacement drinks and adult diapers."

"That's crazy. What is wrong with you."

"It's the guy. He knows something's up. I can't talk on the phone, anymore. There must be any number of agencies who want me dead. I'm going off the grid at an undisclosed time in the future. See you never. I should've known this was going to happen, ever since I looked up Saudi mail-order brides."
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"Hey, babe, what's wrong? Are you going to work today?"

"Nah. This guy told me on the radio that I should live like I'm going to die, and I know what he means: he's saying that, since I'm going to die anyway, I might as well do whatever I want before I go. I've already French-kissed my cousin, robbed a liquor store and made a moltov cocktail and threw it into an abandoned park-bathroom, jumped off a bridge onto a ferry and stole a few peoples' credit cards and bought a panzer at a military surplus, and right now I'm on my way to use freeway traffic as target practice. You can join me, 'cause you're probably as good as dead anyway, too."
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"Why are you still in bed?"

"Someone told me to live every day like it's my last, so I'm choosing the 'death-bed' option. Figure'd this would give me a head start, getting into position. I never knew I had this much drive to think so far ahead."

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