Writing Prompt

“Today is the day I die? This is just a stupid calendar, how right can a calendar be?” she laughed it off, turning away from the calendar hanging in her fridge.

“But this stupid calendar also told me last week, ‘today you will meet Tom Hanks, and guess what? I met Tom Hanks. I still think about that man,” she smiled, almost forgetting for a minute the words that were written in front of her.

“Tod...

Hmph.

I recall our teacher, Mrs Hart, telling us the differences between a fact and an opinion. “A fact is true!” She yelled in her high-pitched voice, “an opinion is not!” I consider the sentence ‘Today is your day to die’ an opinion. That appeared on a calendar for facts. I flip the calendar back to the page before, and found a fact: 'Elephants can remember things for a very, very long time....

If the calendar were to read “today is the day you die”, how would you feel? Would you panic or would you be okay? Why would someone panic, there’s nothing they can do about it now? This is why:

They panic because they know they haven’t done everything they should have been doing, and now they’re at the end of their run they’re worried they’ve wasted their life. They have been putting things off...

As I checked the calendar for today’s fact, I was expecting something like “The current population in the UK is almost 67 million people.” I looked at today’s date and realised it said something odd. The words “The day you die,” stared back at me, was this some kind of messed up joke? How can they even be allowed to put that in a calendar which they then sold to the public, I was outraged. I got a...