A few really good longtime friends of mine, that I moreso consider family, experienced the death of their Matriarch over the weekend. It really had me thinking. We all tell ourselves that we go to a “better place” or “Heaven/Hell” but none of us really know with any certainty. Friends of mine have argued in the past that we do know, because of a certain very fallible and self-contradicting piece of literature we call the Bible. Your belief is your belief. I’ve just arrived at trying to be happy in the here and now. I don’t have as much control over events and circumstances in my life as I’d like to, but who knows what it will be “after this life.”
So while I’m alive, breathing, know I can be forgiving, can be giving, and experience a certain amount of Freedom…I feel it is my RESPONSIBILITY to live this to the fullest of my capabilities. Often people are miserable because of self-inflicted limitations. I don’t pity them. Especially since this is mostly a western issue. If you look out in the world there are millions of people who are miserable because of the tyrannical rule of a certain country. Right now, with the internet and other technologies we can reach out to experience our desires and speak our minds like never before. If there’s anything I learned from my friends’ Matriarch, its always speak your mind even when it seems the odds are against you. Which she demonstrated while dealing with racism on the job.
Its time for us to speak up. It may not be political. You may feel like its no big deal. But right now more than ever, if there’s something eating at you that you need to say to somebody… Say it. We can’t control when Death becomes us but we have a lot of control over who we become before Death comes. Be You. To The Fullest. Be Beautiful you. What if the things you choose NOT TO DO doom you to return and live this life all over again? Like a video game character playing the same stage over and over again. You have the power to reach your endgame before you reach the end.
