The Task Today:

We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You just discovered you have fifteen minutes to live.

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I’m in shock… how could this be… I have always known that we all have the same exit… I just figured it would be later for  me…

Fuuuuuuuuck!

This sucks!! I have so much left to do… So much left to say… I cry for a minute… I then realize… I’m wasting time, what to do?

I’m stuck, but realize I better get unstuck pretty quickly. I pour myself a glass of  the Appleton Estates VX Rum that I bought in Jamaica 25 years ago. i always promised myself I would drink this when I moved to paradise… well that never happened, or maybe it’s about to happen. Hmmmm will I go to heaven or hell? Did I learn the lessons I needed to learn here? Did I teach the lessons I needed to teach? I guess I’ll know in about 12 minutes.

The Rum tastes good… smooth, and warming… it has a little bite in the back of my throat… Well time to stop regretting what I have done or haven’t done I guess!

I am alone, I can’t spend the next 12 minutes phoning friends, They would be shocked and it would be a lot of crying etc… not really how I want to be remembered….

I decide the best thing I can do is leave a message – should it be video, should I write something, this is my chance to leave a legacy.. what is my message?

I start, Well you will likely be as surprised as I am by this, but I am about to say goodbye for the last time. (I start to cry a little) I will miss everyone terribly – (Or will I? Who knows what’s ahead of me now!)

If I had one thing left to say… I think it would be to ask everyone to please take care of my Wife Amy and my two dogs Coconut and Mango. Please help them through this transition and please help Amy find someone else to love. My Dogs already love everyone!

Please follow your passion. Lift is too long to be miserable.

You make the rules, except for a very few things like Death… and taxes – and it would seem that some of us don’t pay taxes…. Nothing else is written in stone.

You can change today! You can be who you always dreamed of being. Don’t believe the assholes that tell you you can’t! I’m here to tell ya, at least for the next 5 minutes, that they are wrong. There are no limitations on your life, there is no stop sign setup to keep you from achieving your dreams.

Your parents did the best they could do, stop sniveling about what they did to you or didn’t do for you… Take charge of your own life!

Take chances, live without a safety net. It’s true that sometimes we need to jump first and grow our wings on the way down!

Do things that leave you breathless, do things that leave other breathless.

Love fully. If you have been harboring resentment or anger at or for someone, let it go… I promise you that resentment is hurting you more than them, in fact they likely don’t even notice it!

This is not a dress rehearsal, this is LIFE, the real show!

Be happy every day, if you’re not, change what needs to be changed to make you happy.

If you want to live somewhere else, pack your shit up and move… Or leave it behind!

Don’t be afraid to re-invent yourself. I’ve done it dozens of times and it really feels good.

You’re never too old to learn, develop a passion for learning new stuff! Just random fun stuff!

One minute left, the old cartoon ‘Goodbye Cruel World” keeps running through my head… What will this be like? I remember my Mentor Berta teaching me and reading in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying that I should be peaceful, I take some deep breaths and try to settle in for the trip, will this hurt, will I know it’s happening, will I just be worm food in a couple of minutes, (Will I press publish in time???)? I’ll see ya on the other side…