How much you charge someone that wanted to buy a day of your life? The day would still exist but you will not experience it, it will exist but you would have never felt it.
It is a theoretical question.
Puzzled?
Picture this.
A man walks into the café that you are sitting in reading a book whilst sipping your coffee after a very long day. He is wearing a grey trench coat and sunglasses, he walks over to your nearest empty table and sits down. After a while, he stands up walks over to you and says:
‘I have a proposition’
You look up from the book and with a brief raise of an eyebrow you signal him to continue,
‘If a person of unlimited wealth-such as I-was to choose any day of your life for you to put aside, give up and never experience. How much would you charge?’
Okay so how about now? A question not so theoretical.
Still Puzzled?
How much you charge someone to take a day of your life?
£100,000 £1 million or maybe £1 billion? Or is it priceless?
This is what I was asked today. Okay, so no one approached me in a store, but something happened today that deposited this question into my mind. What if?
I always knew how priceless my life was, but I never realized how priceless 24 hours of that life would be.
Would I give a day of my life away? What if the chosen day was a good day? What if that day would be the one to change my life?
It made me think of how much I value my future and the fact that I believe I have one. I bear in my mind every unfortunate child around the world and even some of my friends that have died young as I say that word-FUTURE. I bear in my mind all these people as I plan that FUTURE.
But do I do the same for every one of my days?
I know what I want to do in my life, I know what I want to have happen in my future. But what am I doing now?
If I know where my goal, my target, my future lies. Am I taking appropriate steps to get there?
Then the real question: Was today really worth £1 billion? If I were to look back in 10 years, 5 years, 1 year or even a week, would this day matter?
Would it even be remembered?
Has it changed my life? Has it changed anyone’s life?
If a day- a good day- of my life would be priced between £1 billion-to-priceless. Then why don’t I make everyday good? Why do I spend endless minutes on adverse activities?
Why don’t I live each day as if it were worth £1 billion?
Consequently, I can’t help but ask myself: What did I do today that would benefit me for the rest of my life?
Or much, much, much, much more importantly: What can I do today-NOW- that would benefit me for the rest of my life?
To everyone out there make your day really worth the money you would ask for it.
To the go-getters out there, you are very few and far between, the world needs you. To the rest of you- including me- get out there be a go-getter, an achiever, a self-starter and a high flier. Life is far too precious for you not to be.
Good Luck
MCarlosa
xxx