How do you live life like there’s no tomorrow?

After watching the movie A Single Man yesterday, I had one question on my mind: How do you live like there’s no tomorrow? No matter what I thought, it didn't seem like the right answer. Or maybe it was right but only to a certain extent.

Like in this case: One day, you want to call your mom or a friend. But later you say, “Well, I’ll just call tomorrow.” If you want to live your life by this saying, then the correct thing to do would be to call your mom or friend that very day if not the minute you want to do it. Because something could happen that night, or even in the next few hours, which leaves the person you wanted to call dead. And for the rest of your life, you’d be regretting not calling them earlier or wondering how that last conversation would have went.

But in a different case, the answer isn’t so simple.

What about a job you want to do when you get older?

Or

Places you want to see?

Wishes you have for when you become an adult can’t fit into a 24-hour day.

What about goals?

Everyone tells you, you should have goals for the future. Something that keeps you going.

How can you have wishes and plans to accomplish goals in the future, when you’re trying to live as though tomorrow, you’ll be dead?

But then, this also leads to the subject of fear….

In the movie, the main character is an English Teacher. One day, in class, he talks to them about fear. Fear of growing old alone, getting killed, and death.

If you have a constant fear that there might not be a tomorrow, how do you live today? All your mind can think about is what’s going to happen. Will your house burn down while you’re sleeping? Will someone run a red light? Will the roads be really slick? Fear can keep you from living your life and as the saying goes; you can’t really die if you’ve never really lived.

I've heard people say you shouldn’t fear death because then how can you live.

I've also heard to live like there’s no tomorrow because tomorrow is never promised.

I guess the only way not to fear death is to accept it

I guess the only way to live for today is to

Say what you want to say

Do what you want to do

Don’t look back at the past

And don’t focus on the future.

It’s okay to have goals and things you want to do when you get older, but don’t get so caught up on the future that you forget what you have right now.

You have today.