Episode Details

What if today is the last day you can walk, or go to the toilet on your own? Mine was Sunday, 1 September 1991.

I have rebuilt that morning in my head hundreds of times. Waking up. Stretching. Lowering myself onto the toilet without a thought. Showering, drying myself, wrapping a towel round me and walking back to the bedroom. That was the last day I had superpowers, and I had no idea. Twenty nine years on I am not asking you to be frightened. I am asking you to notice that you can talk, taste your food and feel the cold on your face, and that none of that came with a guarantee.

One thing to try: Do one ordinary thing today slowly enough to actually notice you can do it.

In this episode

• (1:18) Lowering myself onto the toilet without a thought
• (2:50) The last day I could wash myself
• (4:14) The last day I had superpowers
• (5:03) Live with gratitude, because there is no guarantee
• (6:37) Eighteen years old, and the dive
• (7:41) How would you live today if you knew
• (9:03) We eat in front of Netflix and never taste it
• (10:41) Too afraid to sit in gratitude in case it fades

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