This is sad knowledge. For some it is scary. Probably, it is impossible to meet a person who is able to be indifferent to such knowledge. It is impossible even for those who believe in reincarnation - that this life is not the last.
Instructions
Step 1
Possessing this secret knowledge, which is not open to every person on Earth, you need to ask yourself a simple question: what do I want to do in the allotted time?
Step 2
And asking yourself this question should live. After all, as Steve Jobs, who worked almost to the end, said: "The thought of imminent death is the best way to get rid of the illusion that you have something to lose."
Step 3
It is absolutely not worth asking yourself unproductive pessimistic questions: why me, why am I, who is to blame? There is no answer to them.
Step 4
For someone, to begin with, as a guide to action, films made on this topic can help. There are many of them.
Step 5
For example: “The Sea Within” with Javier Bardem and Belena Rueda, “Sweet November” with Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron, “Knocking on Heaven” with Till Schweiger and Ian Joseph Lifers, “Now is the Time” with Dakota Fanning and Jeremy Irwin, “Stepmother with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon, Dallas Buyers Club with Matthew McConaughey, The Burning Man with Matthew Goode, or A Woman Comes to the Doctor with Caris van Houten and Barry Atsma.
Step 6
Will a person looking for an answer to the question - "how to live, knowing that you will soon die" - find this answer in art? In cinema, music, painting? Someone will certainly find it. In any case, there will be an opportunity to push off from the idea that art is capable of throwing.
Step 7
You can make a list of a wide variety of things that, due to various circumstances, could not do living "with the flow." As a teenage girl - the heroine of the movie "Now is the Time". Or the wonderful sloven heroes from the movie "Knockin 'on Heaven."
Step 8
Having compiled such a list, you must try to implement all the points from it in exactly the allotted time. Only the list should be realistic, so as not to really regret anything in the final.
Step 9
Or you can devote the rest of your life not to yourself, but to loved ones. So that after your death they can live in peace and harmony with each other and with themselves. As did the heroine Susan Sarandon from the movie "Stepmother".
Step 10
Or even not close. For those for whom your death can become an example. After all, as a rule, people who live an ordinary, routine life do not often have to think about why life was given to us.
Step 11
If a person, before dying, realizes that he should not leave just like that, does not seek help, but is ready to help those who remain, then he will do everything for himself that he should. In very different Hollywood films - "Sweet November" or "Dallas Buyers Club", it is about this kind of help.
Step 12
Sell everything and go on a journey? Have time to see penguins in their natural habitat? Rob a bank? Give out all the money? Bequeath your organs to medicine? Jump with a parachute? Drafting a detailed will? Make no will? Lie down in front of the TV and watch all the films and programs that you loved? Go to hospice and help others while you still can?
Step 13
The main thing is to remember that the knowledge of imminent death is unique. You are one of the select few who knows exactly, or almost exactly, when. Therefore, your life is yours. And no one else.
