Death

Talking about death is hard for everyone, it’s never easy to let go someone we love or something we love such as living. When we talk about life, we always picture something happy, colorful and simply alive but, when we talk about death we always get this image of sad and darkness, why? If we don’t even know what being death really is!

Being death means that your organs stop working! But the worst of all is that you never get to know how and when it is going to happen! Is not like going to a party that you can get ready and prepared for any “emergencies” is like… SURPRISE! Your death… there’s nothing you can do! I think that, that’s what scares me the most, the term of “absence of life” makes me think about all the things I did and all the plans I wanted to do… their just gone, there’s nothing left to do.
Am going to be honest by facing that I am really scared of dying, probably because I have too many plans to “enlarge” my life that I haven’t done yet, maybe that’s why we always relate old with “about to die” Because old people all ready did what they wanted to do!

That’s what makes me think of what I am doing right now… I mean… am standing in front of my computer instead of doing what I really want though I’m conscious I can die in this very moment!
I think that no matter what last name we have, what our chances with a guy/girl are, what my crush is going to think about me…. We should all be grateful that we are here to witness life with its lows and highs and most important of all to.. actually live it.

let us begin with death

Death is a very important subject to think about and to realize that all of us at some time in our life will die and realize that it is inevitable and irreplaceable you cannot take the place of other people, they will die anyway.
Fernando Sabatier tell us that thinking and realizing the existence of death can make us take life more seriously because we should live and do our best because we know that any time we can die and you could never come back and do stuff that you would like to do. If death wouldn’t exist life wouldn’t be exiting and interesting because we could have all the time we want to do things.
The thing that realizing that we are going to die differ us from animals is very interesting because many people say that humans are like animals but here we found one of the important differences, because we are humans because we know we are going to die and animals does not know that. Death humanizes us and makes us unique because the thing is that no one can take our place to die for us it is a different experience for every person. Realizing that we are dyeing make us think in life as a more serious thing.

Let us begin with death..

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…

Let us begin with death

I am going to die, even though I am able to say it I don’t think I am able to understand it because the idea of death seems so far away from me right know that I am not capable to process the fact. I know everyone has to die, I know it can happen anytime; and it is not like I want to live forever, because I don’t, but it is so difficult, and kind of depressing, especially right now, in the earliest times of my life, to imagine a moment in which I am not going to exist.

It might be some kind of denial, but that denial, I think, is the thing that keeps me focus on life, on taking advantage of it instead on living worried about the future, about the time everything is going to end. I don’t want to think about death because I am too busy thinking about life. Epicurus said we can’t experience death so we shouldn’t be afraid of it, I think this is THE thought, we can’t live fearing death, we can’t let it control our lives, we are all going to die but as long as it doesn’t happen we are ALIVE.

why philosophy?

Philosophy can't be just another subject to teach or to learn, it's way much more than just that!
Now, why philosophy? Why do I need to learn anything at all about philosophy if just like this am doing good?

Well, for sure there's no right answer but am getting a clue... this will actually be helpful!

Since class #1 I realized that I've lived for around 17 years with questions with no answers! Like... why em I here? Is there actually a real purpose for living? Why are we human beings different but at the same time so alike?!! JUST TOO MANY QUESTIONS THAT BRING BACK MORE QUESTIONS!

So... Since scientists, the pope, my teachers, mom and dad haven't come with an answer yet; we have a little something that may come with tons of possible answers and more deep questions with wake up calls… I better named it as philosophy!

Now, philosophy studies way too much and beyond! And either I like it or not, I live with it because I’m human! I can't go walking around my whole life pretending that nothing is going on in my mind because it actually is!

Philosophy makes me human, makes me realize that a body is just a simple wrap if we don't question anything at all ( if we live without philosophy) questions only makes us smarter and build us up as humans, and philosophy is based on questioning everything!

To make this short... Philosophy isn’t just a bunch of questions and weird-real statements, philosophy makes us think, makes us real and be actually living humans, it makes us keep our feet in the ground and value all that surrounds us and most important of all to LIVE in a real life.