Let me see... if I was alive just for today, and today only...
I wouldn't tell anyone. I wouldn't call anyone. I wouldn't make amends. I wouldn't apologize. I wouldn't even call just to say 'hi' to my family. The very last day, that's for me. That's mine. That's about what I've lived through. I'm not going to change it. I'm not going to change my life's meaning. I don't want to change people's opinions of who I was. If they hate me and are pissed at me, that's because of who I was and what I did while I was living. That's the person I was. To apologize to them simply because I'll be dead soon seems a hypocrisy. It seems as though I'd be rejecting my prior existence, saying, "Hey, you weren't good enough. Let me try to fix what you were." I've made mistakes, I would have regrets, but I wouldn't change them. I'll die with them. I'm not challenging anyone who would make amends, but it just isn't me. I'm confident in who I am today. I know I wasn't always like this, but that's fine.
What would I do? I used to keep a log. Not a journal or diary because I'm straight, but just a log that I'd write about once every 2-3 days describing what I did, thoughts I had and that stuff. A reminder to a later self. It often has questions, expectations written out. It tells me what I wanted to become, and often it asks if I've done them yet. Sometimes it speaks in a confident tone, saying "I know you've achieved this, and I thank you for that." I'd read them. All of them. I'd just spend my day reading about my life. I'd sit down with a kettle of tea and read about my life. What I had been, what I had desired. I'd smile to myself and the whole feeling would be bittersweet. I'd laugh at my previous jokes and pleasant memories, I'd smile at the memories of my sadness, telling myself that eventually I'd get over them, I'd be sad when reading about the goals I had that I never achieved, yet at the same time I'd be pleased that at one point I had the passion to talk about them. I'd be glad that I had something that was important to me, something that I wanted to do with my life. Even if I didn't succeed. It was me. It was who I was. That's what the last day would be for me. It would just be about me learning about who I was, what kind of person I was, being happy and being sad with my prior exploits, knowing that I haven't achieved all that I spoke of, yet feeling bliss for those things important to me that I did. I wouldn't want to change who I was, I'd just want to know who I was.
Now, six months? That's different. If I only had six months to live, I'd just leave. I'm pretty broke, but I don't care. I'd just leave. Take a single backpack with me, and not even a big one. Europe has open borders these days. I really enjoyed my time in Germany last year, and I've been wanting to go back for some time. I've always wanted to see France. Italy seems a dream, too. I wonder what I could find in Austria. I'd just leave. I don't know how I'd survive, and I don't really care. Just... I'd go everywhere, see everything, understand things people couldn't normally, experience more than a life times worth of adventures and exploits in less than six months. Nothing else matters. It's just the adventure. The entire time, I'd tell no one. I'd be nearly dead soon, and I'd tell no one. My little secret, and I'll take it to my grave.