There is a story by Alan Mayer called “Bad Luck.”
I awoke to searing pain all over my body. I opened my eyes and saw a nurse standing by my bed.
“Mr. Fujima,” she said. “You were lucky to have survived the bombing of Hiroshima two days ago. But you’re safe now here in this hospital.”
Weakly, I asked, “Where am I?”
“Nagasaki,” she said.
And Nagasaki was bombed a few days later.
Today, there is a feeling that we cannot be safe anywhere. We are reaching the experience of every day with the realization that every moment may be our last.
While it might seem negative, with regard to developing to our higher, more unified form of existence, it is actually a very positive state.
Why? It is because it drives us to accurately evaluate ourselves and our lives. We can then make the most of living every moment of our lives valuably, as if it were our last. Humanity has never lived in such a way on any mass scale, and today our development is leading us there.
What does it actually mean though, to live every moment as if it were our last? It means that we should give ourselves over to the flow of life, letting the laws of nature navigate our motion forward.
We can then live our every moment for the benefit of others, and not focus on what will be in the next moments, but rather how we can maximally benefit others in the current one.
Life itself is a moment between the past and the future.
Living in such a way depends on how deep we can delve into ourselves and how far we can break away from corporeality.
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman and Semion Vinokur on November 16, 2023. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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