I recently read a blog entitled 7 Questions You Will Ask at the End of Your Life. The author described how he had found a journal written by his grandmother after she passed away and that the questions appeared in her final entry. I found the questions to be thought-provoking and choice theory friendly. See what you think.
1. Am I proud of how I lived?
2. What did I discover?
3. How well did I play the hand I was dealt?
4. Did I take enough responsibility?
5. What struggles did I conquer?
6. How sincerely did I live through love?
7. How much of my story did I actually write?
These questions get you to thinking, don’t they? As a teacher I am aware of how powerful a well-worded question can be. You may even now be reflecting on your journey, wondering how the answers for these questions are playing out for you. Most of us still have time to write new answers to the questions, which is pretty awesome when you think of it.
Besides reflecting on your own journey, I invite you to evaluate the questions and determine whether any of them could have been written better. In fact, can you think of a question that got left off of the list, a question that should have been included? Who says there are only seven questions you will ask at the end of your life? Maybe there are twelve questions, or seventeen questions. Share your question(s) with the rest of us. I look forward to hearing from you.
(The seven questions can be found at the Marc and Angel Hack Life blogsite at www.marcandangel.com.)
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Wayne Muller in “How then, shall we live?” has a set of four questions that Teri and I have appreciated in our maturing years. Who am I? What do I love? How shall I live, knowing I will die? and What is my gift to the family of the earth? Indeed, I am responsible to bring meaning and purpose to my life.
Another great set of questions, Ed. I have always been drawn to Francis Schaeffer’s question – How Should We Then Live? – which I am assuming is what Muller may be basing his questions on. Thanks for the heads up on Muller.
Thanks Jim and Ed, now to can keep concepts like these in mind when “behind the wheel.” I so often feel like the snail when asked about the accident. He could only say “I don’t know, it happened so fast.”
Well said, Tom. It is one thing to wonder how I will answer these questions at the end of my life. It is quite another to think about how I am doing right now, in situations I am working through right now. Re-writing the questions in the present tense literally puts me behind the wheel. For instance –
What am I discovering?
How well am I playing the hand I have been dealt?
Am I taking enough responsibility?
Am I living life through love?