Hello Procrastinators!
This is a Happy Monday post and although it's not going to make you smile, it could help you to realise what you post online is more important than you think, and that life is too short to waste. And facing the reality of life is just as important as blocking it out and forcing yourself to be happy. As the following tweets will help us all realise is we never know when this one life we have is going to end and we best make the most of it while we can. Okay, so preaching over, let's begin...
We're at a strange place with technology at the moment. We live our lives through it, and then when we die, it precedes us as something physical and accessible by anyone we've ever been in contact with. Our tweets and Facebook posts and blogs can outlive us, and our past selves can be judged from them.
Leonard Nimoy sadly passed away on February 27th 2015 and the world was in mourning. People who possibly hadn't even seen Star Trek were flung into public displays of deep sadness - but obviously not for the retweets or the likes. Most poignantly was Nimoy's last tweet before he died. He sent it just five days before he passed away and it's actually profound.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
— Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) February 23, 2015
Reading about his last tweet made me question whether any other celebrities had such philosophical final tweets, their last word to the internet world. It led me to a site called The Tweet Hereafter, a list of all celebrities who have died, their last tweets, the time and dates of their deaths and how they died. It's morbidly interesting.
Some people were tragically taken before their time and their tweets about upcoming events or things they were excited for, so everyday that it was clear they were taken off-guard.
George Donaldson @GDonaldsonCT
Harry Potter night tonight again with Sarah. There's nothing like it………. The movies are ok. ∞Cory Monteith @CoryMonteith
oh. IT'S A SHARK TORNADO. ∞Mandy Rossouw @MandyRossouw
I just moved up to the rank of Noteworthy on the Who's Who of Southern Africa! whoswho.co.za/mandy-rossouw-… ∞Some, however, are so relevant that it's almost prophetical.
Nolan Burch @NolanBurch9
It's about to be a very eventful night to say the least ∞
Tweeted:Nov. 12, 2014, 1:33 p.m. EST
Died:Nov. 14, 2014 EST
Jaylen Fryberg @frybergj
It won't last.... It'll never last.... ∞Sonny Miller @luv2sweep
I get by with a little help from my friends! Live to Love! Love to Live! Love You Live! Hope to see… http://t.co/NWBjbG0LJ7 ∞Some even use Twitter to make public their suicides, or their suicide notes.
Kate von Roeder @ItsDamiya
Adios folks. Suicide note is here: https://t.co/zmoBtwk034 Good luck y'all ∞Capital Steez @CapitalSTEEZ_
The end. ∞Some of the tweets relate to their deaths in such a way that it's freaky, like this one:
Greg Rodriguez @RiflemanTV
Order your RiflemanTV t-shirts! gaohunts.com/proddetail.asp…#riflemantv http://t.co/TwFrHQOFXI ∞Reeva Steenkamp @reevasteenkamp
What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow??? #getexcited #ValentinesDay ∞And some serve to remind us that your tweets, texts or Facebook posts could be the last thing you ever get to say, your very final and public words to the world, and could be what you are remembered by.
Pascual Perez @PascualPerezMLB
Alex Rodriguez should follow my example of retiring graciously and disappearing into a distant land rather than continue to be a mockery. ∞So think before you post online - none of us know how long we've got so make every day count!
Jess x
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