I watched this great 1998 film this morning, "Last Night" about a group of people and how they spend the final hours before the world ends. It got me to thinking, if I knew that approximately two months from now that the world was going to end, how would I spend that time? Would I show up to work every day? Would I make a list of all of the pleasures/adventures I'd always wanted to experience, and set out to do them all? Would I just curl up in a ball and wait to die? Who would I reach out to? Who would I want spend those last hours with...and who would want to share them with me?
Any thoughts you'd like to share?
For your listening pleasure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02TUsZzF6es
UPDATE: I've been pondering this question, and it's a toughy. I'd want to be with my sister and the kids up in Seattle. But, I'd also want to spend time with my family here in NoCal. And, what of my chosen family? Will I have a chance to reminisce with them? Plus, there are movies I haven't seen, books I haven't read...and so many letters I haven't written. Do I take the time to tell my father that even though we're estranged, I still love him - even knowing as I do that I probably wouldn't get a response? What about my kitties? Do I use my junior detective skills to track down twinfan and have a real dinner with my virtual husband? (On the plus side - no more worrying about how the Giants will do in the upcoming season!) If, for whatever reason, I was alone in that final hour, I would grab my kitties, and put on Fred and Ginger in "Swing Time" and try to go out smiling, humming, and purring...
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Hookers.
I have no idea right now. But I bet you I would know instantly what I wanted to do the moment I heard the bad news.
Lefty - I get the impression DJ has thought about this before. ;-P
I saw that movie when it first came out. Pretty groovy. I don't know what I would do. I'd probably be guilted into hanging out with my family, which would be fine because I love them and it probably wouldn't be too safe to travel to Europe or Africa or anything...
Not sure what I'd do. But I'm pretty sure there'd be a lot of whimpering and crying involved
I think I'd wish Zeke hadn't dug up the neighbor's flower bed last week...
With little time to waste, I'd set about planning the world 2.0.
Make that the world as I know it 2.0. Been plenty of worlds before this one, after all.
I think I might do whatever I've been refraining from doing as a result of worrying about what it would do to me in the long run.
WV: pothint. Oh, the irony....
Everyone else will be going crazy, so you gotta move smart:
steal some guns and protect the defenseless to the end.
wv: bakfi
give me a c, give an r, give me an e.
oooh, DSG, great idea. Cigarettes and McDonald's. All fast food, all the time!
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