soulspeak

it was my first trip to town in more than 3 months...took a taxi after my acupuncture at nuh...rekindled a lifelong delight in burrowing through the book shelves once more. i could spend an entire day at kinokuniya.

i picked a title entitled "IF - Questions for the Soul." it struck that i spend much of my waking time meddling and settling affairs which may not necessarily matter on my death-bed. what matters most perhaps are questions or directives i delay apprehending because i harbour a high degree of over-confidence towards my own mortality.

here are the 5 questions that tested my heart...

IF you could make certain that your parents knew one thing before they died, what would it be?

IF you were to choose your own pallbearers, who would they be?

IF you were to write your own epitaph today, what would it say?

If you died and could look back on your life, what is the one thing you think you will miss the most?

IF you could focus more energy on one part of your life, what would it be?

as much as many of these statements deal directly with death, any attempts made to work my response to answering them strangely gives me life.