do 'a year to live' experiment

‘A year to live’ is a year long ‘experiment’ that writer Stephen Levine thought up. I read it done by his son in ‘Dharma Punx’ and just got so inspired. I don’t know when I will do this, but I must. I know it will take a lot out of me to live a year as if it truly were my last. Just to realise that people you meet and places you go, you may never see again would have a profound effect. To let down your barriers so that you truly let people know what effect they’ve had on you would be hard because I take things for granted. I think this will make my relationships vibrant, but also may scare some people. I mean, someone I’ve just met, if I honestly thought I wasn’t going to see them again because I was going to die in a year, I’d probably say something I usually don’t, like “you’re a great person. I respect you and hope that you acheive all you want to.” – they might think I’m slightly kooky, but then again, if I were going to die in a year, would it even matter what people think? Well yes, since I won’t really by dying as such. I think I’d have to get it into my head that even though this is an excercise, it is also very real and I may not endure a physical death, but definetely something more mental.
If that makes any sense.