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  • My kid still asks me to carry them and I barely register it, and it hit me that one of these ordinary days is quietly the last time it ever happens
  • It hits me afterward that some ordinary moment was the last one
  • My ordinary days just blur past
  • I treat the ordinary moments
  • I want one small thing at the end of each day to keep me from sleepwalking through them

Practices that may help

  1. Notice lasts — the last-time meditation
    Notice that every experience has a last time, and acknowledge when you’re in one.
    Memento Mori: Using Mortality Awareness to Focus What Matters
  2. The last-time awareness practice
    Periodically notice when you might be doing something for the last time — and let that awareness deepen your engagement.
    Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things
  3. The last ordinary moment
    Notice a routine moment — a meal, a commute, a morning — as if you might not have it again.
    The Last Time Meditation
  4. "Last time" meditation
    Ask yourself: when was the last time I experienced this, and how many more times might I?
    Negative Visualization for Gratitude: The Stoic Path to Appreciation
  5. The daily ending awareness
    Each evening, name one thing that happened today that will not happen quite this way again.
    The Last Time Meditation
  6. Walk through a place as if for the last time
    Walk through a familiar place — your neighborhood, your home — as if you are leaving it forever.
    The Last Time Meditation
  7. Cultivating a present-moment aesthetic
    Train yourself to notice and appreciate the unrepeatable qualities of the present moment — light, weather, the texture of today.
    Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things
  8. Full presence with something passing
    Deliberately be present for the last or near-last moment of something — a season, a stage, a relationship — without numbing.
    Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things
  9. Impermanence awareness practice
    Deliberately notice the transience of a good experience to deepen your engagement with it while it’s here.
    Wabi-Sabi: Finding Beauty in Imperfection
  10. The last chance before a transition
    Before a major life change, fully inhabit what is ending, rather than only anticipating what comes next.
    The Last Time Meditation

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