With the time remaining…

I’m dying.

I don’t know how much time I have left.

I’m not sick or mortally injured right now.

I’m just acknowledging a reality.

• It could be in 30 years.
• It could be in 30 days.
• It could be in 30 minutes.

But no one knows for sure. We’re all dying, and few of us know when ahead of time.

The only thing any of us can be sure of, with reasonable certainty, is the present moment.

Today

If today were all that was ever to be for you, how would you treat others? Do you pause a moment longer to think about how you would be remembered?

If the work you were doing today was to be your life’s work, would you do what you are doing? If so, how would you engage with it?

If today were the final ticks on the clock for you, how would your awareness of experiences change? Would things taste the same? Would the air that fills your lungs feel the same, or the beating of your heart go unnoticed?

It is through this lens that I see the heroic and the romantic as one and the same.

Sum of Todays

Perhaps we are lucky and at the end of today, we lay our head down and drift off to sleep.

We fade in the following morning to the sound of an alarm or the light of the sun.

And this today is another day where we might wonder, is this the last one?

Day after day, we have this experience, until we don’t anymore.

And what remains is the sum total of what we did with each of those todays. The way we treated others, the way we treated ourselves, and the contributions we made to one another.

Yesterday

But we often don’t think like this, do we?

Because it feels morbid. It’s uncomfortable. It’s confronting.

So we go through countless todays before the thought creeps back in. When it does, we quickly push it off until tomorrow. Then one day, there is no tomorrow, and we look back on yesterday, wondering why we didn’t think more about today.

As I see it, our mission is not about a better tomorrow. A better tomorrow is the outcome that flows from all of us accepting the mission of a better today.

That’s not a call to hustle. It’s a call to engage more deeply and meaningfully with how we show up.

Because while we cannot be certain what tomorrow holds, we have today and the power to decide what we intend to do with the time remaining.

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