Advice from a Dying 24 Year-old

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8 thoughts on “Advice from a Dying 24 Year-old”

  1. Wise words indeed. I’m pretty good with 3 of the 4. The first half of Point 2 is problematic and perhaps due to his inexperience with certain aspects of life.
    Tragic story none the less.

    1. It seems to me that having a limited time focusses the mind on appreciating every moment and living it to the full. The world is a beautiful place. Life is incredible. We don’t always live it to the maximum.

      1. Oh I very much did and some. Whilst most people were sitting watching Corrie at night or propping up their local, I just wasn’t. I never went to bed. I had a line of women friends all over the place. I had access to the best quality drugs anywhere. I got paid more money than I could spend. i had more great clothes than I could ever wear out. I lived and breathed total quality. I ate like a king. I could drink champagne and eat caviar every day. I could travel to anywhere I wanted and did most often. I was never on a budget. I used to fly from country to country to see all the bands I wanted to. Sometimes I’d take 2 weeks off so that I could fly around Europe going to Bob Dylan shows. I started that kind of thing in 1984, on his fabulous Eurotour with Mick Taylor. The only thing I didn’t waste my money on was 1st class fares on planes and 5-star hotels (especially if you work in them) when sometimes I couldn’t get a freebie or a discount because the firm I worked for might just not have one in a certain location or there were too many conferences and not enough rooms to be had.
        I took everything to it’s maximum worth.
        In comparison to all my friends back home, their lives looked liked they died last year.

    1. Yes Cheryl – some real words of wisdom. But we are all in the same boat, aren’t we? We are on a death sentence. It is how we spent the time we have that is important. We should live each moment as if it’s our last and drain every last drop of love, experience and appreciation out of it. We should do everything with the utmost endeavour and fill each moment with joy and creativity, celebration and love. We should make the decisions to try, do and experience. All too often we waste our time or spend them in negative pursuits.
      I’ve noticed many times that a diagnosis of a terminal illness tends to liberate and make life more intensely beautiful. That is what James Varda and Wilko Johnson both said.

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