One Day and Thousand Years

When it was two days before the end of the world, he found out that he hasn’t lived at all. His calendar had been filled with many days and just two days had remained. Being anxious, worry, and furious, he went to God in order to get more days from him.

He shouted but God remained silent.
He shouted louder and insulted angels and human-being but God remained silent.
He insulted God but still God didn’t say anything.
He became sad and started to cry. He cried and cried…

Then God broke his silence and said: “my dear son, you’ve lost another day just insulting me and saying nonsense words. Now, you have only one more day to live. At least live this day fully.”
“But what can I do with only a day?” he asked.
“The one who enjoys living only one day perfectly,” God replied, “indeed he lives a thousand years and the one who lose one day of his life, will also lose thousand years” and then poured the portion of one more day in his hands and continued: “now, my darling, go and live a perfect life in this day”.

He looked at the life in his hands astonishingly. He was frightened to walk and to lose his life, then he thought one moment that his fear is nonsense if he’s not going to have any more days. “So let’s live this day,” he said and ran…

He poured the life of that day on himself and ran more quickly. He tasted the life, smelled the life. He was in such an ecstasy that he could run until the end of the world.

He neither earned any money nor built any skyscraper that day. But he smelled flowers, slept on the grasses, looked at a lady-bug, prayed for those who loved him and those who didn’t. He forgave, forgot, laughed, loved, and over flew with joy that day. He passed and was finished at last…
He just lived that day, but angels wrote in the God’s calendar that “he, who had lived one thousand years, died today”!

by: Anonymous
Translated from Persian to English by Sonia