Mud Pit with 24 hours to go?

A friend who wants to be a writer proposed an idea for a novel when everyone has 24 hours to live. My friend lives in a very poor country where death is always present. But I have met youth and homicide vigils in the central city who feel their lives can end at anytime. When a person knows he or she has only 24 hours to live the perspective on life changes. This scenario does not usually happen to persons like us who are healthy and aware, but if he did, what would we do?

As I have reported many times in these postings I have been living with a sense of death for the last year or so. But knowing for certain that I had 24 hours to live would be different. Like a person on death row who is to be executed the next day I probably would spend the time with family and friends. When the future is stripped away relationships shine.

When we know we will die possessions do not mean much. “What does it matter if one gains the whole world and loose one’s soul?” Relationships with God, humans and nature speaks to the soul and thus matter with 24 hours of life on earth to go.

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