Tag: laughter

I went to the lifespan doctor today. I sat down in her blue medical chair and waited for her to finish reviewing my paperwork. She finished up and said,

“Hold out your finger please”

You see, I was sitting next to the lifespan machine. She pulled out a thin cord that had a tiny needle attached to the end.

“Ouch”, I cried out as she stuck me with the needle and took a little bit of blood.

The dials and wheels on the machine started whirling as it processed my blood and was computing.

It printed out a small strip of paper with the number 521 on it.

“You have 521 days left to live”, the doctor said.

“Good to know”, I replied as I got up to leave. “Thanks”.

🤔 Of course, there is no such thing as a lifespan machine.

Sometimes, I feel like I didn’t have a worthwhile day and it was a wasted. It does leave me pondering, dang, what if I only had 521 days left to life and I just wasted one of them? Sometimes, I just have to live with that thought.

Whoever you are reading this, what if you knew you only had 521 days left? What would you do that would make them good days left?

For me, seeing my wife or kids have a good laugh and a big smile on their faces, makes it a good day.

Going out in nature and experiencing things that make me be in awe, is a good day.

Doing something creative, makes it a good day.

Spending 5 hours a day looking at instagram is a good day…… oh wait, Meta high jacked my account and wrote that in there! Actually for me, those are the days that I feel like I wasted, the ones I spend too much time looking at a screen (I only spend 5-10 minutes a few times a week looking at instagram).

Next time you have a good day, try and identify what made it good and try and duplicate it. Next time you feel you wasted a day, try and find out why it felt wasted and try and eliminate that aspect.

None of us know how many days we have left to live, 1 to 25,000, try and make them count in whatever fashion counts for you.

We don’t have a machine that tells us how many days we have left. I’m going to try and do my best not waste mine.