Death-Cast

I have been avoiding this book for a good part of a year, just because it’s called “They both die at the end”, I know I know I bought it right !!

But then, having to rearrange the books to add the new ones I bought over the last two weeks, I have decided to start reading the books in their alphabetical order (that is how they are arranged, by author name) and make space as I go for the new ones. I’m not writing this entry to sing the praises of the book or any of that, though if you have great imagination, it’s a book for you. What I want to write about is the concept of death-cast that it proposes and knowing that you will die at a certain date.

Imagine the following, if you were able to know at the beginning of a day that you will die in 24 hours, what would you do? What would be the things you rush to do? What would be your regrets that you haven’t done or gone after? have you been living safely and hiding from a joyful life behind the excuse of busy work life?

This is the kind of book that, yeah, makes you sad while reading it about how they start strangers at the beginning of their end day but then become so close losing one another hurts; you feel for them. Then you finish the book and start thinking, have I loved? have I lived? Have I done anything worthy of my life? I’m not a big fan of bucket lists, but when I was done with the book, I started thinking about things I wanted to do in my life and accomplish (personal things and not work related), so I could actually say that I have lived, maybe we should all do that more often, so we don’t leave this existence full of regrets. That is all I’m saying.