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How would YOU spend the last day of everything?
It’s been a while since I’ve taken part in a meme, let alone started one—but today, I’m asking a selection of fellow bloggers a very simple question, assuming we’re all still around today and over the next week at least, in order to provide answers. The question is this: how would you spend your last day on Earth, not only your last day but the last day for everything?
It’s the day some people have feared, when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is switched on in an expensive quest to find the so-called ‘God particle’ otherwise known less sensationally as the Higgs boson. It is said to be crucial to gaining a greater understanding of the universe—assuming it exists, and can be found—and is thought to give everything its mass.
Perhaps you’d want to make love to your partner. Or would you want to spend your day outside, in the forest or on the beach, appreciating nature before it all turns into its constituent atoms and dissolves like dust on the wind, or an aspirin in water? Would you pray? You might decide to be quietly contemplative, or you might lose it completely and run naked down your street, screaming—or you might pick up the phone to confess your sins to friends and family, or tell them that you love them.
Or there could be a million other ways to spend not only your last day on Earth, but the last day for the Earth itself. Think on it. Would you turn to crime, cry, laugh uncontrollably? Read your favourite book, watch your favourite film? Bake a cake?
I’m tagging the following wonderful bloggers to provide their own answers: Oak, Jami, Sue and Matthew, Howard, Beautifu1. I am sure each will have their own unique and revealing placard- and hysteria-free response to the end of the world being nigh!
Here’s mine: I know I’d want to be with my partner, holding each other close. I’d make sure we had all our pets in the one room with us before the end came. I’d probably choose one song to play, my partner another. But of course, he might have different views on how to spend the last time we have together. Right now my song would be The Hills Are Hollow by Damh the Bard, as it encapsulates my core spiritual beliefs in a celebratory musical framework. Here’s an extract:
The hills they are hollow / and home to the fey / We dance on Midsummer’s Eve / Some people don’t understand when I say / These are the things I believe. / These are the things I believe.
I would aim to go out with peace and love in my heart. I would not want to be carrying or caring about trivialities, dislikes, upsets and aggravations. I’d want to be with the man I love, with the animals in our care running around madly, clucking or meowing or whatever each one does. I’d pick up the phone and call my friends and family to wish them well, and thank them for their love and support. I would thank the gods for the blessings I’ve had throughout my life, and the lessons learned from all experiences good and bad. And then… Who knows?
Here’s hoping Thursday happens, eh? I’m sure it will. Well. Maybe. Probably. And now over to those other bloggers named above to post their own answers to their blogs… before it’s too late… 
