Wanderings' Wanderings

Into My Soul

I’ve honestly no clue what the morbid fascination regarding death is all about.  You seen in ads myriads of ways to prolong life, or to look better longer, even if they do nothing else, all in an effort to prolong the inevitable.  There are museums about death, cemeteries, death shrines on the sides of the highways, crypts, and all sorts of other reminders that we are mortal and will one day join the ranks of those who have gone before us.

There is an old Latin phrase: Nascentes morimur – From the moment we are born, we begin to die.  It is the honest truth and there is nothing on this world that can change that fact.  You there, in the chair reading this blog, you are dying!  Every moment of every day you are getting older and getting closer to the day you will cease to exist, and you will die on the very day you are supposed to die and not a day sooner or longer.

I know, I know, such morbid thoughts.  What’s all this about anyway?  I guess I could throw it all back in your face and ask you what is your fascination with the beyond?  Human-kind seems so bent on understanding, defining, or controlling  a concept of the afterlife.

We even live our lives with an expectation of going to a paradise when we die.  Our motivations in this world are  usually closely linked with that of the next.  Our actions in this world are to ensure we have a better next life, or to receive blessings in this one, but to ensure we reach Nirvana or Heaven.

I personally think life would be better spent living our lives and not being concerned with eschatology.  The plain and simple fact is we can never know what happens to us after we die.  We know what happens to our physical bodies, we know our physical energy changes and becomes something else, but our souls are a different matter all together.  To my knowledge, no proof exists of someone coming back from the dead to give us full details of what lies beyond the great barrier.

What if instead of living our lives with the expectation that what we do directly influences where we go when we die, we did the opposite: lived our lives with the expectations that what we do will benefit our current life.  What if we did good things NOT because it assures us a place in a heaven, but because it makes us good people in the here and now?!  What if instead of waiting for death to come, we enjoyed the time we have left?!

Maybe, just maybe, if we focused on the LIFE aspect of LIVING we might find that there is nothing at all scary about transitioning from one energy experience to the next.  There is nothing scary about something which is inevitable.  It is a natural part of our process.

Stop focusing on death, and stop giving it so much power over your LIFE.

Live for a change!

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