Death, what should we say about it? Shall I say how some are afraid of it? Or do I dare to say the forbidden, that maybe there’s no heaven? So, what’s the deal with death?
Well for this post I thought I’ll just give my opinion about death, not getting too involved in religious themes or in the facts we know but simply what I think about it. Death as many perceive it, is talking about the unknown, that “thing” we don’t know and many of us are afraid of, but for me death is the conclusion of ourselves.
As I see death, I do not categorize it in a bad, good, scary, etc thing; I simply put it as the conclusion of a human being. One doesn’t know when it will come or how it will come but one thing is for certain, death will come to us. I’m not trying to say that once it comes there will be nothing afterwards but just talking about death, the term is talking about the conclusion of something.
Death for me is not something I think about as much and I think that if one thinks of it too much you’ll miss the important part, which is life. Life is what comes before death that’s for certain, that’s a fact, but what comes after death we are not sure, no one knows for a fact what will happen after it, and that’s why I profoundly believe we should focus on life.
Life is a fact, life is a certain thing, life is real, so why waste our time thinking about death? I don’t mean to say that we should never think of it because it’s necessary for us to know about it. What I’m trying to say is that we should focus on death as a “sub term” in our life, we must know the basics of it but we must also remain neutral about it. Death is the end of the pathway of life, and for me it only remarks that we live only for a certain period and that’s why we must accomplish our goals and our desires.
It may sound a little confusing but as a final point, what I’m trying to say is that one shouldn’t worry about death because we don’t know what will come after it so we must focus on what comes before, life. And life is the important part in this theme, why do I choose the opposite of death as the main point? Well because I firmly believe life is the only way we can prepare ourselves for death because one who lives plentifully may rest happily. So I say, let us begin with life…
Monica, your thinking here totally mirrors Savater's "Thought, awakened by death, bounces back from death's impenetrable wall and comes back time and time again to the subject of life." (pg.21) You really explain this concept well in your musings. Plus, catchy ending, nice.
ReplyDeleteMonica! I really liked your post, I also believe that we shouldn't spend a lot of tie thinking about death, we should spend A LOT of time LIVING. I really liked the part you said that, we know that life is a certain thing so why should we care about something we don't know how its going to end.
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