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What will you do if there is only one hour to live?

This was the question popped up in Dr. Van Wood's lecture. It was a funny story that happened in his college life. One of his professors asked them to write an essay titled with this question in the final exam. When the result came out, only one student got an A and all the others got Bs. He wondered why, so he went to the professor and was told that that A-paper had only one sentence, "Dear professor, if there's only one hour for me to live, I'm gonna attend your class."

He began the class by way of this funny joke (the end of the joke is at the bottom of this blog). But seriously, the question made me think a lot. I've come across many similar questions like this before, such as "what are you gonna do if there's only one day in the world?" Each person will come up with different answers and some of them may be very brilliant. For me, I don't care whether it's brilliant or ambitious, I just want to spend the one day or hour with my parents, happily. Maybe this day or hour is probably like any day we have stayed together, because I always think that any day with my parents are worth remembering and reliving. If it were a day, it would start with a delicious breakfast cooked by Mom and we would go to amusement park or zoo, I think, 'cause I never went to these places with them in my memory. And then we would have a big lunch in a restaurant and spend the afternoon in another place. I don't care what kind of place it is, any where there are my parents and me. I think we would end this day with a great and fabulous dinner, come home and watch TV. Many people may think that the last moment would be so important that it can't be spent so naturally, but I want to spend the last moment as usual, as I've spent the every moment with my parents. So it seems that there's no end at all.

End the sentimental feelings, haha. The end of the joke was that the professor came to that student and asked her why she wanted to spend the last hour having his class. Then she said, "prefessor, having your class always seems to me like an eternity!" :)