When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you live each day as if it were your last，someday you’11 most certainly be right．”It made a deep 36on me．and since then。for the past 33 years，I have37in the mirror every morning and asked myself：“If today were the last day of my life，38I want to do what I am about to do today?”And whenever the answer has been“No”for too many days in a 39，I know I need to change something．
Remembering that I’ll be40soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big41in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death， 42 only what is truly important
About a year ago I was43with cancer My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs44order，which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die．I45with that diagnosis all day． 46，at last an advanced test showed that i。。t was a very rare cancer that is47with surgery．I had the surgery and I’m fine now
48wants to die．Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there And yet death is the destination we all49．No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be，because death is very likely the single best invention of50．It is life's change agent It clears out the old to51for the new．Right now the new is you．but someday not too 52from n6w，you will．gradually’become the old and be cleared away．Sorry to be so dramatic，but it is quite true．
Your time is53，so don’t waste it living，someone else’s 1ife．Don’t be54by dogma（教条） —which is living with the results of other people’s thinking．Don’t let the noise of others’opinions drown out your own inner 55．And most importantly，have the courage to follow your heart
36．A．impression B．curse C． decision D．joke
37．A．seen B．looked C．found D．1ost
38．A．would B．should C．might D．could
39．A．hurry B．1ine C．moment D．row