Death and Life; January 19, 2009
I originally wanted to write this as two separate posts, but I think that it would do more justice if I combined the two. So life and death, a pretty sacred topic, but for the Chateau D’if nothing is ever off limits. Death is a part of life, which all human beings experience. I wish I can say that death is easy and simple to explain as one person’s life coming to an end. I wish I can say that death will never come to the ones we love, but I can’t. I also wish that I knew what happens after our own demise, but I can only assume and hope. It is pretty hard to even assume what it is going to be like when I die, it really is a mind trip. It crosses all philosophical, religious, physiological fields because in order to understand what death is we have to understand what life is, and that in its own is a vast conjecture.
We “deal” or “handle” death all very differently. But one emotion is pretty universal, we cry. We express our utter sorrow for the ones that we have lost. We know we will never see them again, or be able to hear them laugh again. We remember the good things about them, and try to forget the bad. But we all know that death is a hard fact of life to deal with. But we that live, use death, we use it to our advantage in our own lives. We use the personalities and recollections, and the mistakes of those in the past, to look to our futures. To help ease the pain that we know must eventually come to all of us.
We use this past reflection to strengthen our resolve. To understand that life is what it is, and should not be forgotten. We learn a valuable lesson of lives vulnerability. And what is life? Is it just a culmination of events that take place before death? Is it this existence that defines our creation? I really hope not. You see, I am a bit more cheerful then what I seem to be. I see life as our reward for living. If that makes any sense. An award given to us by, whoever you want to believe gave it to us. I love life, I love what it gives us and I miss what it takes away. We live our lives very differently, we don’t live it like a fantasy, we live it as our reality. Life does not suck.
We must realize that death revolves around life and life revolves around death. “We must live as if there is no tomorrow”, no that old axiom must never be spoken hence forth! We must live because there IS a tomorrow. We have to have that hope; hope that there is a meaning to all of this, that there is better. And that we have a purpose for doing what we do, because as humans we need an explanation for everything, even life. It is not good enough for us to think that we are just here out of a whim in the complexity that is cosmic nature. Do we just ask ourselves, “does it get any better than this?” a loaded question if there ever was one. But we are here, and there is better, I have hope that there is better. Call it greed if you want, but life is incredible, and I want more of it. But we are here. We are here to live. That is what life is my friends. Human beings, being human beings; living every day, just to get by. Doing what we do to live they way we live. Life is full of wonders that need assimilation, inclusion into our souls. For if we do not take what this life has to offer, we cannot take those memories and feelings of joy with us to where ever death may take us.
I know, you know, everybody knows that death is a part of life. It’s the big elephant in the room that nobody talks about. You know it’s there, it can show up at any time or place, but you refuse to acknowledge it. Death is…. Well death for me is the reason for living. I must live my life till I can live no more, than and only then will I die. It is not something to be feared, but welcomed as, yes bumper sticker as it sounds, welcomed as life’s next marvelous journey.
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