Yesterday I watched an incredible movie; it was called “Before I Fall”. Its premise is similar to “Groundhog Day” (which is one of my favorite movies). The heroine of the movie, a young teenage girl dies in an automobile accident. She then relives that day over and over and over again. Each day she does it a little bit better, and by that I mean that she was a better version of herself. She was given an opportunity to look at her life from the vantage point of if this was my last day what would I want to do differently?

What she realized was that what she wanted to do differently was not to have more things, not to be more popular, not to do anything extraordinary, but she wanted each person that she interacted with to remember her in a positive way. Once she realized this, she treated each of the people in her sphere with love and kindness, Throughout the final iteration of the last day of her life she made sure to let her mother know that she loved her, to let her father know that she loved him, to let her little sister know that she was perfect exactly as she was (even with her speech defect), to let her best girlfriends know exactly what she loved about each one of them, to let the girl that she was mean to know that she was sorry and to let the boy that had a crush on her know that she actually really liked him (even though he was not the most popular guy at school).

What if you knew this was your last day on earth? What would you want to do? How would you want to be remembered?

However you answered those questions is how you should live your life each and every day, because you don’t know if this will be your last.