THIS One LIFE: You Have Finite Life. What Will Do With It?

What if the most important fact about your life is also the easiest to forget?You are here once.Your time is limited. Your attention is limited. The people you love will not be here forever. Neither will you.THIS ONE LIFE is a wide-ranging exploration of one of humanity's oldest and most urgent questions: How should we live when we know our lives will end?Drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, evolution, history, religion, and the realities of modern life, Sophie Domingues-Montanari, PhD, examines why human beings search for meaning-and why so many of the things we chase may fail to provide it.From ancient ideas about the good life to contemporary questions about status, money, achievement, screens, artificial intelligence, regret, mortality, and the pursuit of happiness, this book asks: What actually deserves the finite hours of a human life?Inside, you will explore: - Why consciousness of death changes the way humans live - What ancient philosophers and religions believed made life meaningful - What evolution and psychology reveal about happiness and fulfillment - Why money, status, achievement, and "more" so easily become traps - Why love, friendship, belonging, creation, and contribution may matter more - How suffering, failure, and grief can transform our understanding of life - Why attention may be one of your most valuable possessions - How screens and artificial intelligence are reshaping the modern search for meaning - Why deciding what is "enough" can change the way you live - How to confront regret before it becomes permanent - What mortality can teach us about what deserves our time nowThe final part turns the question toward you.What would change if you knew you had five years left?What about one year?Which relationships would you protect? What would you stop postponing? What would no longer seem important? What would you finally begin?Through a Life Audit, reflective exercises, and a bonus section featuring 50 Questions to Ask Before You Die, THIS ONE LIFE invites you to examine the life you are actually living-not the one you intend to begin someday.This is not a book promising a perfect formula for happiness.It is an invitation to notice something far more important: Your life is already happening.And whatever you choose to do with it, you only get this one.