When you are born, you are like a drop of water that leaves the ocean into the air. As you get older, you fall back down to become part of the ocean. Part of one consciousness, one existence. You become whole again complete.
It seems like we have an inherent nature to try and run from and turn our back on death. Like if we live ignorant of it long enough maybe it won’t come. Or maybe we’ll get more time if we don’t think about it. But really it’s quite the opposite. Until you start remembering your time is limited. Until you start remembering it’s a gift you take a breath and see a sunrise or a sunset. It’s a gift to love and be loved. Until you have that knowledge and lose the expectation of tomorrow you never really live.
So the very act of ignoring,refusing to remember, or just completely turning a blind eye to death means you haven’t even started to live yet. When you wake up each day thankful that you have another chance. When you remember none of this is guaranteed and each day is another gift. Then you really truly live.
Every day becomes richer brighter deeper and has much more potential. You don’t take the people around you for granted. You don’t need a near miss or an accident to say you love someone or appreciate them. You show them daily. Not because you almost lost them but because you know time is finite in our experience of it. Whether you believe in something beyond this or not, this realm this experience this moment is special and has purpose. There’s a reason to be here. It could be as simple as just appreciating it or it could be you change your life or that of others. What’s important is to not think you have tomorrow. Not put things off thinking someday or when the weather is better or when I retire. Not waiting for money or a certain situation to experience things you want.
Find a way every day to live that day fully. Even if you have to start out pretending, just don’t expect tomorrow. If you get the gift of another day embrace it,appreciate it, and share it. If you get another one then do it again.
Live them all fully and when death does come, and it will, may you approach it with less fear. May you not have resentment, regrets, or long for all the things that you didn’t do. May you greet it with a smile and all the memories of how full you really lived each day. That you look back and know you appreciated, you lived fully, and you felt with every fiber of your being. You loved with abandon, you were hurt time after time, but picked yourself back up. You overcame so much and you lived a life that was yours. It was your design, your will, your mistakes, your triumphs, your dreams, and your pain. Live that life, live that day, and live it as the gift it is.
Death comes for us all but truly living life is something so few actually experience. I hope I see you out there smiling, embracing, and fully experiencing it all. See you on the road and see you on the other side.