Last Phone Call

“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”
Stephen Levine

How would you feel if you were told that you were going to die soon, that you only had a short time left to live. Most of us would feel panicky, because we would realize just how many things that we wanted to do before we die, that have been left undone because we always assumed that there would be plenty of time to do them in the future. Usually, it is only a diagnosis like this that makes people realize what is really important to them, and what has been neglected for too long.

Our lives tend to be filled with trivia. We are constantly bombarded with messages from different people trying to get our attention, and we often react by ignoring all of them, even the ones that would be important to us. We spend our lives reacting to whatever life throws at us without stopping to reflect on whether it is important or not. Many of us long for peace and quiet to just stop and think. Few of us really know what we value most in life until it, or life, is taken away from us.

“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?” The truth is that none of us know how much more time we have to live. We might even drop dead without warning, it does happen. So it’s important to first of all stop and really think about who and what you value, and secondly to let the person know or to celebrate the things. Don’t just think how much you love them, actively show it. Make the world better.