If you live each day as though it were you last?

Question

A great man once told me that when he was younger, he read a quote that went something like this: "If you live each day as though it were you last, someday you will most certainly be right." He told me that since reading it, he has always tried to live each day as if it were his last and asks himself whether he would be doing what he is doing if tomorrow never came. That's all well and good, and I don't know about you, but to me when I hear that quote, it makes me not want to live each day as if it were my last. it seems to me that that quote is warning you not to live each day as if it were your last because sooner or later you'd be right.

So how do you interpret the quote, why would it motivate anyone to live each day as if it were their last when the quote seems to be warning people against doing so.

Answer 1

or live it like it's your first day.

Answer 2

Oh come on! You can't take everything so literally. Try to read between the lines. A quote is good for what it say as well as the implications! Obviously you live everyday as if it were your last within reasonable bounds! And it IS true, you WILL die someday. And just because you avoid living like you are going to die some day does not mean that death will be averted. Ofcourse sooner or later you will be right, everyone dies. It would get really crowded if we didn't. What that quote means is that you have to live life to the fullest because you don't always get another chance! If you have a chance to visit another country, do it. Or let me put it this way, imagine you are at the point that you are dying (whichever way, you choose) this is the moment- what are you going to regret never doing? Eating all the candy bars you can fit in you? If tomorrow never comes will you really care that you didn't buy  everything you wanted? NO! You will regret never doing things that matter. Things that might make a difference whether in your life or in someone elses.  The only thing that quote is warning you about; is not living.

Answer 3

If I did I'd eat whatever I wanted, buy everything I wanted, and  say whatever I wanted. And of course I wouldn't go to work. I'd be extremely overweight, broke, and no one would be talking to me.

Answer 4

More and more people today are having and paying for their own wake in their local pub with all their friends around. I've been to a couple in Manchester UK. Any excuse will do, eh.

Answer 5

Life would be meaningless to me without the future possibilities. Thinking each day to be the last would make the whole life a one last day affair. I think the quote supports my view.