One Week To Live
"If you had one week to live, what would you do; how would you live it?"
That's a really hard question and very easy at the same time. I knew immediately what I wanted to do, but then I thought about my family and how I wouldn't be spending my last moments with them. My initial thought was to travel to Europe and travel as much as I could in that one week; however, I would have to minus 2 days for travel/time difference and 1 day for jet lag so I'd only have about 4 full days to travel...well thats not going to get me very far so it won't work.
I don't want to spend my week with only my family and friends cause it would be way too sad and I wouldn't stop crying. I definitely do NOT want to do that...that's probably as bad as being confined to the hospital for my last week of life.
I guess what I would want to do is combine both: travel the US and/or Canada with my family and friends. I would plan out where I want to go and whoever wants to come with me can come--even if it's just to meet in a specific city for a day or two. I would go out everyday and do as much as I could, but not so much that I have a bad time trying to fit too much in at a time. I think I would chose to stay in Savanah, St. Augustine, San Antonio, New York City, Yosemite Nat. Park and/or the Grand Canyon. I think mixing cities and nature is a nice pace.
I would probably write in my free time about life, what my life has meant to me, some of my history, my will, and maybe some poetry. I wouldn't tell this guy I have had a crush on for a couple of semesters that I like him because I think that would put too much on him--me telling him I like him and then I die. If someone did that to me, I think I would blame myself for not being nicer or friendly or even asking them out earlier. I would video record my whole trip so that my family and friends can watch it when I'm gone. It'll be a happy video but sometimes even those happy videos are the worst to watch cause the person is so unaware that they are soon about to die. However, since I know I am going to die, I think the video would be less sad because its not so much about seeing a video of me blissfully unaware of my impending death.
My will would include things such as this:
This is Lauren Danielle Goecks' last will and testament:
I hearby will my DVD collection to my immediate family.
I hearby will my computer to my immediate family.
I hearby will my scrapbooks to my mother.
I hearby will my movie black and white still photos to my friends Jason and Danielle.
I hearby will my games, toys, and beanie babies to Goodwill.
I hearby will my travel journal to my sister.
I hearby will my ipod to my brother.
I hearby will my DVD player to my immediate family.
I hearby will my travel DVD player to my sister.
Wow that's a sad small will. I'm looking around my room at the stuff I actually own myself and I don't have much of consequence that I can will to people. That kind of makes me sad. Everything I have that's of personal consequence is on my computer or posted on the internet -- i.e. my writing blogs, poetry, and fiction. When I leave this world is all that I'm going to be remembered by is some movies, a computer and scrapbooks? How horribly sad is that? I'd include in my journal that my sister save it and pass it on to her children or someone in the family who is interested in geneology and would savor my journal some fifty or a hundred years into the future.
That's a really hard question and very easy at the same time. I knew immediately what I wanted to do, but then I thought about my family and how I wouldn't be spending my last moments with them. My initial thought was to travel to Europe and travel as much as I could in that one week; however, I would have to minus 2 days for travel/time difference and 1 day for jet lag so I'd only have about 4 full days to travel...well thats not going to get me very far so it won't work.
I don't want to spend my week with only my family and friends cause it would be way too sad and I wouldn't stop crying. I definitely do NOT want to do that...that's probably as bad as being confined to the hospital for my last week of life.
I guess what I would want to do is combine both: travel the US and/or Canada with my family and friends. I would plan out where I want to go and whoever wants to come with me can come--even if it's just to meet in a specific city for a day or two. I would go out everyday and do as much as I could, but not so much that I have a bad time trying to fit too much in at a time. I think I would chose to stay in Savanah, St. Augustine, San Antonio, New York City, Yosemite Nat. Park and/or the Grand Canyon. I think mixing cities and nature is a nice pace.
I would probably write in my free time about life, what my life has meant to me, some of my history, my will, and maybe some poetry. I wouldn't tell this guy I have had a crush on for a couple of semesters that I like him because I think that would put too much on him--me telling him I like him and then I die. If someone did that to me, I think I would blame myself for not being nicer or friendly or even asking them out earlier. I would video record my whole trip so that my family and friends can watch it when I'm gone. It'll be a happy video but sometimes even those happy videos are the worst to watch cause the person is so unaware that they are soon about to die. However, since I know I am going to die, I think the video would be less sad because its not so much about seeing a video of me blissfully unaware of my impending death.
My will would include things such as this:
This is Lauren Danielle Goecks' last will and testament:
I hearby will my DVD collection to my immediate family.
I hearby will my computer to my immediate family.
I hearby will my scrapbooks to my mother.
I hearby will my movie black and white still photos to my friends Jason and Danielle.
I hearby will my games, toys, and beanie babies to Goodwill.
I hearby will my travel journal to my sister.
I hearby will my ipod to my brother.
I hearby will my DVD player to my immediate family.
I hearby will my travel DVD player to my sister.
Wow that's a sad small will. I'm looking around my room at the stuff I actually own myself and I don't have much of consequence that I can will to people. That kind of makes me sad. Everything I have that's of personal consequence is on my computer or posted on the internet -- i.e. my writing blogs, poetry, and fiction. When I leave this world is all that I'm going to be remembered by is some movies, a computer and scrapbooks? How horribly sad is that? I'd include in my journal that my sister save it and pass it on to her children or someone in the family who is interested in geneology and would savor my journal some fifty or a hundred years into the future.