On the day I Die a lot will happen.(Marius Robbertze) On the day I Die a lot will happen.
Author: MFR

A lot will change.
The world will be busy with everything life throws at us.

On the day I Die, all the important appointments.
I made will be left unattended.

The many plans I had yet to complete will remain
Forever undone.

The calendar that ruled so many of my days
Will now be irrelevant to me.

All material things I so chased, guarded and treasured will be left in the hands of others to care for or discard.

The words of my critics which so burdened me will cease to sting or capture anymore.
They will be unable to touch me.

The arguments I believed I had won here on earth will not serve me or bring me any satisfaction or solace.

All my noisy incoming notifications and texts and calls will go unanswered.
Their great urgency will be quieted.

Many nagging regrets will be resigned to the past
Where they should have always been anyway.

Every superficial worry about my body that I ever laboured over
About my waist line, hairline or frown lines will fade away.

My carefully crafted image, the one I worked so hard to shape for others here on earth, will be left to them to complete anyway.

The sterling reputation I once struggled so greatly to maintain will be of little concern for me anymore.

All small and large anxieties that stole sleep from me each night will be rendered powerless.

The deep and towering mysteries about life and death that so consumed my mind, will finally be clarified in a way that they could never be before while I lived.

These things will certainly be true on the day that I Die.

Yet for as much as this will happen on that day, one more thing that will happen.

On the day that I Die, the few people who really know me and truly Love me
Will grieve deeply.

They will feel a void.
They will feel cheated.
They will not feel ready for my departing from their lives.

They will feel as though a part of them has died as well.

And on that day, more than anything in the world they will want more time with me.

I know this from those I love and grieve for every day that have gone.

So, knowing all this, while I am still alive I will try to remember that my time with them is finite and fleeting and so very precious.

I will do my best not to waste a second of my time with those that I love and care for.

I will try my best not to squander a priceless moment worrying about all the other things that happen on the day that I Die, because many of those things are either not my concern or beyond my control.

Family and friends, those other things have an insidious way of keeping you from living even as you live, vying for your attention, competing for your affections.

They rob you of the joy of this unrepeatable, uncontainable, ever evaporating, now with those who love and care for you, and want only to share love and time with you again and always.

Do not miss the chance to dance life with them while you still can.

It is easy to waste so much daylight in the days before you Die.
Do not let your life be stolen every day by all that you have been led to believe matters, because on the day you Die, the fact is that much of it simply will not matter.

Yes, it is a fact, you and I will Die one day.
But before you Die, always live your life to the best of your ability.

Live your life not only for yourself, but also for those who love and care for you always.

MFR

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