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What would you do if you had one day to live and you were still young and healthy?

Hey hey, I still am young and healthy! That aside, I guess I would ... well, I was about to say I would splurge all my money on another trip around the world to see all the people that mean so much to me and tell them how much they mean to me in person, but I just realised that would take more than a day, so.

Man, this question is kind of creepy to me, because I used to have a recurring nightmare about this situation when I was younger.

First, I would put all my affairs in order-- anyone that I had fought with, make up with. Anyone I had wronged, apologise to. Make sure that the items in my possession that I care about are left to the people who I know will take good care of them, not sell them for the cash. I would tell my best friend how important she is to me. I would regret not ever having sex but still not have someone to have sex with. I would tell everyone I'd ever loved just how much I loved them, including those I'd never told before. I would write down every last scrap of detail I could remember about Oliver's story in the hope that someone one day would find it and write or draw it like the epic it's supposed to be. And then... I suppose, time left after that I would spend like any other day. I would just do the things that I enjoy. I would go and buy the food that I love to eat most and eat it until I couldn't eat anymore. I'd play video games. I'd just hang with my friends. I'd discuss the usual nerdy fandom things. I'd laugh at stupid incidents in my RP game on livejournal.

Because the thing is, other than that, I don't have anything major on my "to-do before I die" list that I could accomplish in one day, like scuba diving or bungee jumping, etc etc. Everything major that I want to do before I die in life is something that will take time. Like becoming a comic artist, or a fashion designer, or travelling around America and Europe and the UK, and meeting all my friends, and finishing my university degree, and moving off this stupid island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and so on.

So if I only had one day to live, obviously I can't do those things. So what can I do but set my worries at ease and then just spend the rest of the day doing what I enjoy?