Six Months

      If I only got six months to live and no medication could save me from death, I would change my life style and start a brand new way to live.

     According to Heidegger’s philosophy, human beings are “thrown into the world” at the start of our lives, meaning that we are surrounded by rigid attitudes on the first day since our birth. People sometimes forget to live freely and end up living for others. In order to overcome this kind of unavoidable thrownness that happens in society all the time. I would choose to move to countryside and try to transform from inauthenticity to authenticity, or start to live for myself. Therefore, I would start meditating for the major daytime. Because meditation is a good way to relax, hopefully it could sweep away the fear of death, helping me experience the calmness that is hard to seek in the city. Besides meditation, I would do some hiking if possible. Living in city, nature is hidden by the high buildings and air pollution, but in the countryside, where the beauty of nature can be found, life is more about experience rather than result. I might see a rock with a wired shape, or a flower with beautiful, unexplainable color, and one day, those beautiful things will all gone, just like my life.

    In the six months, I wouldn't read newspapers or watch TV, because all I want before my death is to cast aside the chains of society and focus on actually living my life.