Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.

The quote reframes “mission” not as a single task that can be checked off, but as an ongoing responsibility to live, learn, and contribute. Its logic is deliberately simple: continued life is presented as evidence of continued purpose. In effect, it counters despair and premature self-assessment—if you are still here, there remains something to do, become, or understand. The line also implies that purpose is dynamic rather than fixed; one’s mission may change forms across stages of life, but it does not end before life ends. As a motivational aphorism, it encourages perseverance and attentiveness to the present as the arena where meaning is enacted.

“Here’s a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.”
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.”
“Here’s the test: if you’re alive, your mission isn’t finished.”