Volume 16, Issue 1, Spring 2009
Jeffrey P. Fry
Pages 79-88
Living Like There's No Tomorrow
Urgency, Mindfulness, and Psychological Realism
This paper explores whether resolving to "live like there's no tomorrow" would be conducive to living life to the fullest. While there is much to commend a life lived with a sense of urgency, I conclude that living like there's no tomorrow, in the final analysis, is neither advisable, nor realizable. In its place I suggest a life lived in mindfulness of the transitory and uncertain nature of our lives.