@zord189 posed this question for the #Powerhousecreatives weekly contest [here](https://steemit.com/community/@zord189/powerhousecreativescontestaweektolivecontestdetails-by5qx0l3ax)
> what would you do if it were your last week here on Earth?

I had previously answered a similar questions for the @Tribesteemup Bi-weekly questions 

>How different would your life be, if you knew these were your final days

Where my response [here](https://steemit.com/tribesteemup/@porters/living-each-moment-as-if-it-were-your-last-a-responce-to-tribesteemup-bi-weekly-question) covered the issue of why would I wait until my final days but to start putting my affairs in order now and releasing the fetters of day to day life, being freer and living life well! 

And...

>What would be your perfect day? Are you living it and if not why?

My response [here](https://steemit.com/tribesteemup/@porters/ahh-a-perfect-day), I spoke of how I would move towards living with "perfect days" by eliminating from my life anything that would deter me from going in that direction and that no longer serve me in anyway but was more of a distraction.

Now on to this recent question by @zord189... 
If these are going to be my last days I would want them to be more as the "perfect days"!

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This time around my response is going to focus more on my aspirations and fulfilling them before my last days.

Being I am now in the last quarter of my life, my time remaining here has become more important and I think towards aspirations I have not fulfilled.

I do have one aspiration I'm working on - 
>To be a force for peace and love in this world!

I had a near death experience once where I was going to the light, where there was such a feeling of what I would term "supreme love". I did not enter the light, for the message came to me that it was not my time and there were many others I was to connect with. 

Since that time, I have made some very deep and meaningful relationships. 

Also I had taken a Vipassana mediation course, gathering many insights. 

I remember at the end of the course when my instructor was giving his blessing and radiating Metta (loving-kindness), he was like a shining light. Welling deep within me was this feeling  that I want to be able to radiate love like that too! 

Some of the reading I was doing was on Metta (loving-kindness) and I even wrote a post about it [here](https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@porters/metta-loving-kindness-is-it-better-to-have-loved-and-lost-than-never-to-have-loved-at-all-qotw)

And "The Peace Prayer" by one of my favorite saints, St. Francis of Assisi, kept coming to mind.
>Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

>O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved as to love.

>For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

I took that message and carried it into my life, being a reminder to be that force for peace when there is conflict, love when there is hatred. 

I now often start my meditation practice looking to experience that Nibbanic Peace, tranquility and joy and to share that with those around me. I am moving in the right direction for fulfilling my aspiration!

So on my last 7 days, much of my time would be spent communing with nature, with my loved ones near by, and deepening my mediation to let that love within, radiate out! 

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