DEATH
Remember when you are dead, you don’t know you are dead; it is only painful to others. The same applies when you are stupid — Ricky Gervais. When I die, keep my hands upwards so that people may know that everyone has to leave the world empty handed- Alexander The Great. So long as you exist; death is not with you; but when death comes, then you don’t exist. Death can’t be bad for you, because you won’t be around to experience it. Everything worthwhile in your life draws its meaning from the fact that you will die. Your life is finite and one day, you will die.You need death in order to live. The meaning of life is that it stops. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead; either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. Socrates thought, the unexamined life was not worth living; how much more so, the unremembered life? During their lifetime 99% of people fail to achieve their true potential; thereby, hardly 1% die as successful persons. So Leave a legacy. Put a dent in the universe. Manojnight Shyamalan movie “the Sixth sense”. ‘I see dead people walking around like regular people, they don’t see each other, they only see what they want to see. They don’t know they are dead’. When I move around on roads, Buses, metro, I find that the majority is dull and spiritless. Though they are moving around like regular people, but they don’t talk to or see other people around them. They only see what they want to see on their Mobiles, Laptops, Movies,TV Serials, Whatsapp, Tik Tok. Inside they are as good as dead, though they don’t think so. Inner peace is missing. . Only the dead fish go with the flow. Unless you burn yourself (by your hard work), there is no light and enlightenment. If you want to go to heaven, you will have to die first. Without death, you can’t go to heaven. You have to die yourself to go to heaven. You cannot outsource that. A shadow follows us the day we are born and then one day it faces us — it is death. We all will die, but our story remains; which coming generations will tell. Make your life story worth telling. No one wants to die; even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.– Steve Jobs When you die, nobody should say, “Thank God, he was a useless person.” People should rather say, “I really benefitted from his kindness.”
Death is only a few bad moments at the end of life, not worth wasting any anxiety over. When death is certain, true sense meaning of life comes, but it is too late then. Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor; It is a gift to the world. Don’t cheat us of your contribution; give us what you have got. The world is filled with people who were given natural gifts, yet they never produced anything. When that happens, the world soon ceases to care whether they were talented. Never stop dancing. Most people die with their music still inside them. The most valuable land in the world is the graveyard. In the graveyard are buried all of the unwritten novels, never-launched businesses, unreconciled relationships, and all of the other things that people thought. I’ll get around to that tomorrow; however, their tomorrows ran out. Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Your work is the most visible expression of your priorities. When you’re gone, your work will stand as the single biggest testament to who you were — the sum total of where you choose to place your limited focus, assets, time, and energy. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what we let die inside of us while we live. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. Life asked death, ‘Why do people love me but hate you?’ Death responded, ‘Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth’. While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Every person dies, but not every person truly lives. A healthy person has a thousand wishes, but a sick person only one- to get well. No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch. Everybody has their own private Mount Everest, they were put on this earth to climb. You may never reach the summit; for that, you will be forgiven; but if you don’t make at least one serious attempt to get above the snow lines; years later. You will find yourself lying on your death bed, and all you will get is emptiness. No one gets out of here alive. The life of the fool is worse than death. Folly is its own burden.
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. — Friedrich Nietzsche.
In three words I can sum up everything, I have learned about life: it goes on.
( Excerpts from CORONA LOCKDOWN NOTES Book being loaded on Kindle -Suresh Maheshwari. Contact: sureshjagdish@yahoo.com )
