Are you ready to DIE right now?

It’s probably not a good idea to keep thinking about your death or that you are going to die someday. Life might become hopeless, goal-less if you keep thinking about your death. You will lose interest in doing anything as it might seem like “what’s the point, I am going to die anyway”.

I am not writing this to inspire you to think more and more about your death and forget your present, your life. I am writing this as I suddenly felt, what if I die right now? Am I prepared enough to die right now? What if I do not wake up tomorrow morning and see light once again? What if this breath is the last breath I will ever take?

I suddenly found that I am not even close to be prepared to die right now. It is not like, “I had a wish to visit that amazing waterfall, that sea beach” etc. It is not like fulfilling the dreams I dreamt of. It is more like doing the things that I should have done for others.

Life goes on, no matter what happens, those who survives they move on. But will you be able to forgive yourself if you make people’s life harder by leaving them in this cruel world, mostly those who depends on you, close to you?

• It would be much better if you tell what you want to tell, may be you won’t get the chance tomorrow.

• If there are secrets to keep or if you have been keeping for long, stay prepared so that they remain secrets. Not everything has to be told, known or discovered. Few things should remain secrets to keep the balance.

• Do you have debts? Try to clear those. Your family members might suffer after your death, it may that they will be asked to pay the debts.

• Do you have savings? Try to save at least the amount your family might need to complete the funeral. Also provide access to someone close to you to that account so that they can access the money when they need it and you are not around anymore.

• Maintain a diary, write down things you wished to do, like you wanted to gift your kid something after they reach a certain age. After you die, they will found and know about it. Otherwise they might never know how much you thought of themselves. Write down about your love to them, may be they will discover this and will come to know how much you loved and cared about them.

• What about your online properties? Accounts on social media, payment services etc. What will happen to those if you die right now? I think you should think about those online accounts also.

Anyway, fate is fixed and there is nothing that you can do about it, cannot even alter the next moment of your life. Present is getting past, future turning into present and then present is turning into past and so on. You are breathing right now, that’s the best part. Don’t get upset by thinking about that you are going to die. That’s a universal thing, you born and you die. But in between your birth and death, you live. And that’s life.

Life is a gift. Do not waste it. Forget that past and forgive yourself for every single wrong thing you have done, every sin you committed. You should forgive yourself first, may be other people won’t forgive you. But still you should forgive yourself and ask for forgiveness from God. Look ahead to life. Live the life like you can leave it at any moment but as long as you are in it, live it fully.

The preparation I was talking about, consider it like a retirement plan. I am not thinking or talking about the life after death. We are social, we are connected by blood, by relation or socially. We have responsibilities toward these relationships. Let’s not die like we don’t care. We can’t deny to die, that’s not our choice either, but we can try to prepare for it.

Cheers to life.