Come alive: love with daring, determination and defiance!

#Trust30 blogging challenge

Prompt 6: Come alive
Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
If you had one week left to live, would you still be doing what you’re doing now? In what areas of your life are you preparing to live? Take them off your To Do list and add them to a To Stop list. Resolve to only do what makes you come alive.
Bonus: How can your goals improve the present and not keep you in a perpetual “always something better” spiral? (Author: Jonathan Mead)


If only had one week to live, I think I would want to spend as much time as possible with friends and family partying, smiling, appreciating and just being with them. I would dance until I dropped. I would love until I dropped. I would hug until I dropped. I would laugh until I dropped. And that would be all.

I think in my ordinary life I am 'preparing to live' by not doing the above things freely and without hesitation all the time. I’d like to do them without fear and with ease. They are not so much on my ‘to do’ list as on my ‘to do more of’ list. It will help improve the present if I do the above things with waiting to see if people will do it back, not reject me, understand my intentions, or if I ‘should’...

It requires me to love with daring, determination and defiance!

I think I will step up to the plate and remember that there is no ‘better’ in the future than seizing whatever opportunity I have in the moment to love this way now!