Life and Death (file under general thoughts)

I’m going to touch on my last post again for a moment as I am trying to get rid of the thoughts that are haunting me at the moment.

Life is a gift that we all share. Many of us live our everyday without thinking about how quickly it can change and more importantly end. We are living in a blissful oblivion thinking to some degree that we are invincible, that it can’t happen to us. Well one of the harsh things that has occurred to me the last couple of days is that out of death life goes on. IT marches on oblivious to death. It just keeps going.

Life is a treasure and I hope that you all treat your life that way. Of course there are the destructive things that we do to ourselves, and without getting into them, I hope that you all realize, as I have that it all can be gone… just like that.

I realized last year that I had spent my life in the pursuit of some empty goal. Some ill defined landscape that was nothing but abstract strokes even to me. Now that I am on this journey the abstract strokes have become vibrant impressions of the life I choose to live and the way I’ve chosen to live out my days. It is not an easy road but it is one which I know that I was built for. It is one that I believe I can make an impression in the world and still maintain what has been my guiding principle.

At any rate, I just wanted to say that to end of my last post after thinking about it a bit more.

Henry David Thoreau once said; “Things do not change; we change.” And I find that in this past six months I have changed more than I ever thought possible.

Define your life not by what others think. Define it by what you want it to be and then pursue it with all the energy you have. There can be no great success without great sacrifice and effort. Are you willing to sacrifice and struggle to attain what you hold most dear? Remember life is short. Are you going to live your life?

A la prochaine

SDM