What I Did When I Thought I Had Two Hours to Live | On Being

"When we are told that we have two hours left to live, what we want is to be with the ones we love the most and to tell them that they are loved. Almost no one says, “If I had two hours left, I’d love to have a chance to take revenge.” This affirms my faith that what is most basic to our divine nature is love, intimacy, tenderness, and seeking forgiveness. I wonder, friends, what it would be like to wake up each morning, pondering how we would live if we thought we only had two hours left. With whom would we choose to spend our time? For whom would we pick up the phone? What words would we use to speak with them? So, friends, what would you do if you had two hours to live? And just as importantly, what are you going to do in these next two hours? There will come a time in our lives when we will truly have only two hours to live. How lovely will it be to have lived a life in which we have told everyone how loved they are, asked for forgiveness for all that we have to atone, and forgiven all those around us who yearn for forgiveness. How lovely to greet that moment with no regrets, but with a sense of purpose, meaning, love, tenderness, and forgiveness. Whatever you would do then, do it now. It is now as it shall be then,"

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