“What if I told you that an asteroid is headed directly for earth in six months time? What would you change about your lives? I know if sounds like a bizarre hypothetical, but what if? What if it were true? What if you gave yourself permission to seize the day? What might your life look like? I would employ you to embrace that what if. What’re your wildest dreams? What’re your deepest fears that you wish you could overcome? Be honest with yourself about what it is that you would change about your life. What would you do if you only had six months left?”
This is all a bit vague if you have yet to see “No Tomorrow”. The CW series follows an adorkable gal, Evie, trying to find her way. She becomes involved with a free-spirited guy, Xavier, who inspires her to make an “apocalyst”– a list of things to do before the world ends, which Xavier claims will be in several months. The show itself is wonderful, but not what I want to focus on. Instead, I find the concept of an apocalyst calling my name: it’s like an urgent bucket list.
So what would I do if I only had six months left? I would learn how to line dance; I would go to Ireland; I would be a better sister; I would become a certified whitewater raft guide; I would own chickens… However seemingly insignificant, there’s so much I want to do before things “go kaput.” When time is the only thing that matters, you start to wonder why you’ve spent the last three hours watching “Get Ready With Me” tutorials on YouTube instead of doing something to truly fuel your spirit. When we get trapped in the monotony of day-to-day tasks, we lose sight of our goals, and we stop being grateful. It’s all time we’ll never get back.
There’s no telling when the world will end: whether it will be in the form of a giant meteor obliterating earth like Xavier’s theory in “No Tomorrow,” President Trump’s deregulation of climate control policies ejecting us into an irreversible downward spiral of intense natural disasters, or simply the end of your time on this earth. Whatever the case may be, we all should be living like there is no tomorrow. You in?
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