1.5 Seconds

When we’re confronted by a light rain, or a gentle breeze, we have the tendency to overlook the power of nature. It is not often that we’re confronted with winds traveling over 100 miles per hour or waves 105 feet high. When such encounters with nature’s absolute power occurs, they are brief, but disastrous.

1.5 seconds. What would you do if you saw you had 1.5 seconds to live? This person, who resided on Sumatra Island, decided to take a picture of the impending Tsunami. I guess when we have time to think about death, we probably would look to do something more profound. But when confronted with the moment of seeing your death in the immediate future, perhaps you would continue to do, what it is you were thinking to do, at the moment you were to do it.

Then 1.5 seconds later, Puff! The memory of your last memory, stored on a memory card, only to be retrieved 6 months after the captured moment was known to occur. What would you do if you saw you had 1.5 seconds to live?