Being and Death

Is it possible to understand death?

I don’t mean conceptually, I mean to understand and live with it every day

Really live with it.

Say goodbye to your wife and kid and understand death can take them when you turn your back

To accept that you may not return and condemn them to a life of poverty

But what do you care? You will be dead, it wont bother you

You don’t exist

Contemplate how much time you have…

5 years

5 days

5 mins

Can we really understand that? I am not sure

If we can’t understand that, can we understand the inverse?

That we are alive and being?

To love, to hate?

Pleasure and pain?

I think we do, I really think we understand at least at a deeper level what it is to be alive

But to be dead? I don’t know

But why? Why understand and contemplate death?

Think of it as salt

Its not food but it enhances it

If you can apreaciate every meal as your last. How much more would you taste?

If that kiss would be your last, how much more would you love?

What would anger you if you knew death was waiting to take you?

Anger is hard to imagine

The pain ends

Most wounds are self inflicted

You wont be able to hurt yourself anymore

You did okay

Its okay

Let it go

You did what you did

It doesn’t matter

Death is that reminder that your time is ticking so enjoy it

Embrace it

Don’t sweat the small stuff but enjoy the little things

Their goes life again

Full of paradoxes