people tell you to "live each day as if it's your last"

[TruthFreedom]

Now, think about this. Really think about it. If you were actually following this advice, would you, or would you not, be taking lots of drugs every day?

If this was really your last day alive, then there would be no consequences in the morning, so you'd want to enjoy yourself wouldn't you?

I think anyone in their right mind would take drugs.

Edited 10 hours ago by TruthFreedom

[YIDIRYIDIR]

LOL you're onto something

[LordFall]

Yeah I guess it's supposed to be a wise saying on gratitude and appreciating life but if I died tomorrow I would for sure liquidate all my assets and fuck a bunch of escorts and be high all day until I meet the creator tomorrow. 

 

[Hasson_Miah]

It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me.  It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter.  It is love, very ordinary, human love,and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.

Jane Rule

[Judy2]

you need a good balance between short-term and long-term planning to optimise both short-term and long-term fulfilment, even though happiness can only ever be experienced now.

which is not to say that a change in long term plans (e.g. a terminal diagnosis) wouldn't change how you spend your last days. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Judy2