It seems
that my friends and acquaintances leave this world at an ever faster pace. Of
course that has to do with my aging and maybe I should be happy in some way
that I can still read the memorial messages.
Certainly
after my decision to early quit my work, quite simply because I could not do
that work after a heavy burn-out any longer, my life developed deeper in value
and significance for me. I live and enjoy day to day. It is a change in
attitude that helped me to feel fulfillment now nearly every day. What matters
for me is consciousness and its content.
Regularly
I tell people; "I no longer have medication for high blood pressure. I can
only remember stress. And if the sun does not rise for me tomorrow, whatever
other people think of it, then at least I have lived life the fullest.'
For me,
the deeper value and meaning of life certainly has to do with the fact that the
theme 'death' has taken a normal and conscious place in my life. Just like
birth is part of it. It is nothing you have to push away. By being aware of it,
I automatically put a lot more emphasis on things that really matter in my life
and I enjoy living life even more.
The
statement that I often see on mourning cards and in mourning advertisements of
he or she died 'completely unexpectedly' made me think last week. How can you
die completely unexpectedly? Isn’t is an established fact? Actually you cannot
even expect it, you have to count on it. And of course I know how it is meant,
but it is not a bad idea to look at it and to contemplate on it in a literal
way during your life time. It can be a mirror to enjoy LIVING life more and you
may be less concerned about all the things that are bothering you so much. Do
they actually really matter and worth consuming your night rest and energy?
Stop
wasting your life away. Ask yourself if you really, from your inside, care
about the right things.
Birth and
death belong to the life circle. As is sometimes nicely expressed, they are
'inextricably connected’. Nobody can escape from it. You will, very sure and do
not possible to escape, pass away. High or low in 'status' (I increasingly
laugh about it), 'poor' or 'rich'. And although you can insure against it
(actually strange because it is not a risk but a fixed fact), the curtain falls
at any moment and you cannot take anything with you. You came with nothing and
you leave with nothing.
Be
prepared and aware of it so that you can make much easier choices in your life.
Choices that make lighter and freer like the butterfly on the picture. Choices
that you may enjoy, if you are honest with yourself, more.
Death is
certain. The moment is not fixed and that makes it popular for others to say it
was ‘completely unexpected’ to face actually always expected death.
Ever
thought about the fact that after today your life is already one day shorter?
That is also common to everyone. No escape. And how long that life is ... For
most of us that is still unknown and it only does not seem to be in sight yet.
The practice can be different and deceive.
In my
experience it helps to live in a way being aware you do not die unexpectedly
and that the moment always and soon can be there for you. For me it is a
support to be even more thankful enjoying the value of life. Mostly not being
disturbed any more by things that in the past bothered me a lot.
Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)
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