How would you die?

Do you ever wonder what you would do if you only had 6 months to live? If you knew the exact moment at which you would die?

What would you DO??

For some people, it would be to curl up in a corner. For they are the ones with no drive to continue.
For others it would be to spend the time with family. For they are the ones that put family first.
For still others, to be with their God would be enough. For they are the people who are grounded in their spirituality.

But for me, I would live. I would actually experience the leaps that would otherwise be considered too risky. To walk the tightrope across Niagara Falls, as some people would say. I would decide to do all the things that have been in the back of my mind but that I was to scared to go through on. I would complete the list of my life. The legacy I would leave. My bucket list of sorts.

I would see the wonders of the world. The colors mixing in a sunset, creating the portrait of the sky. I would walk the sands of the beaches, marveling in way the water carves the landscape. I would simply stand on a mountaintop, silent and still in awe of the view. I would see the Tibetan flags waving and the Russian children playing. I would hear the silence of a temple in Thailand and and the elephants stomping on the plains of Africa. The laugh of a teenager in Ireland and the cry of a babe in Saudi Arabia. I would like to hear the stories of a grandmother in Brazil and the wisdom of the old man in Germany. To taste the spiciness of the curry in India but the sweetness of cakes in Italy.
To see, taste, touch the wonders and undiscovered places of this great world. So I would die a person who has the dirt of adventure on her feet and the breath of fullness in her lungs. I would like to be buried having known the happiness of a baby's laugh and the tears of a wife who's husband was killed in war. I would know the heartache of the struggling and maybe, just maybe I could leave a mark on someones life. I would change that one life for the better, so even though I would be gone, my spirit could live on in the life of a touched person.

I would die a person that saw. A person who listened. A person who loved. A person who was. A person who experienced. A person with a legacy.