The last day of my life
Today as every morning I woke up, after having a coffee at the usual bar I headed for work. It seemed like a day like many past but instead I did not know that what I was experiencing was the last day of my life.
In the late morning, after having done all my daily errands, I would take a break and chat with my colleague. Shortly thereafter my heart rate began to increase, sweating increased more and more and my strength was less. As I asked for help I saw a certain agitation among the people around me but I was suddenly pulled out of that reality. Of that reality that was lived, even if I was the protagonist in fact everyone thought to help me and give me a hand from my illness, I lived a whole other reality.
I felt that my soul was detached from the body in fact I saw my body on the first aid bed all intubated and doctors who were trying to recover. A luminous angelic figure approached me and in a few seconds made me see my whole life.
Only then did I realize that I had wasted much of my existence. My frenzy to excel over others, to earn a lot of money and to be the best, at that moment vanished in a few moments and I understood that I had embarked on a blind path of my life.
That luminous figure said to me “see good man even if on earth you were esteemed for your work you had not understood the true meaning of your existence. In the film of your life you see so much work for personal interests but where is unconditional love? You don't see yourself being helped, invoking God the Father, making a fraternal gesture. What have you learned in your existence? Are you ready to live in this new world if you have never known the love and teaching of God the Father? "
While the machinery beep was continuous, the doctors were around me for hours and my breath was getting slower and decided in the last moments of my life to see my son, not to give him the last goodbye but only to give him the the most important teaching that I had never given him before.
As my son approached the bed I said in a low voice "do not do what I have done so far. Love your family, your parents, your wife, your children, your friends, colleagues, love everyone. In the morning when you wake up don't think how much you have to earn but how much you have to love. During the day, smile, do not tire yourself so much, share bread, call on God. During the day, think of some of your friends in difficulty and call him, let us feel your closeness. And if a hundred people in difficulty appear on your way, you help them all. Do not treat anyone badly, make your goodness and your love the main beacon of your life. When you go to bed in the evening, think about the good you haven't done and promise to do it the next day. When you have enough money and work to live, don't tire yourself so much, take time for yourself. Try to want a world of good. "
By now my breath was slower and slower but at that moment I was happy I felt that with those advice given to my son I had done the best thing in my life.
Dear friend, before I take my last breath and leave this world, I want to tell you “do not live your entire existence among your material thoughts. Know that your life is now hanging by a thread. Live as if it were your last day, live following the true human values that make you a better man happy to have lived your existence. My life is now over but you now start your own, if you have to change and give the right direction, so if one day what is happening to me will happen to you now you will end your existence without regrets, with a smile on your lips, crying from everybody and ready to live in the eternal world of love where you don't have to learn anything if from now on you give love on Earth ".
WRITTEN BY PAOLO TESCIONE