[00:00.24]What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets?
[00:05.72]Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day
[00:08.67]as if we should die tomorrow.
[00:10.27]Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life.
[00:13.89]We should live each day with a gentleness,
[00:16.25]a vigor,
[00:17.07]and a keenness of appreciation
[00:18.90]which is often lost when time stretches before us
[00:21.70]in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come.
[00:26.06]There are those, of course,
[00:27.26]who would adopt the epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry"
[00:30.88]most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.
[00:34.41]Most of us take life for granted.
[00:37.08]We know that one day we must die,
[00:38.80]but usually we picture that day as far in the future,
[00:41.69]when we are in buoyant health,
[00:43.94]death is all but unimaginable.
[00:45.73]We seldom think of it.
[00:47.23]The days stretch out in an endless vista.