Chasing life, or running from death?
Posted on July 17, 2008
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Disclaimer: The following is meant as a motivational and philosophical outlook. If you interpret it as anything else, then this is your own doing.
In our pursuit to live fuller lives by taking chances and living to the “extreme”, I thought about what people do and how they do it in order to get more from their lives. It dawned on my through this that, maybe, instead of actually chasing or racing with life, they might actually be using that as a way to show that they are running from death.
I see shows and read stories about people that are contantly looking for ways to do “Death Defying” feats and acts. Pushing the limits and challenging fate all the way. Some of it looks fun, like sky diving and hang gliding, other things just look flat out stupid… like jumping twenty cars on a motorcycle or other silly acts that are nothing more than an attempt to see how close you can get to death without making the full introduction.
A majority of us do not really WANT to die and we dismiss it as so much forgotten future history that we would rather not deal with until the time comes, oblivious to the fact that we never really know when it will visit us.
Then there are those like myself, who accept death as a part of my life. I know it will visit one day, hopefully later than sooner and I respect it. As Billy Jack said in the movie The Trial of Billy Jack, “…only when Death is our constant companion can we truly live.” This does not mean that I am wanting or inviting death, just that I know it is there. You can either learn to accept it, or run and hide from it, in which case you live a closed and shallow life, always worried about what lies around the next corner.
Looking at my life, I am not sure which of the two I have been doing, running or chasing. It seems like maybe a little of both. In the end, I guess the important thing is that I am enjoying life and harming no one in the process. If a person can go through life and accomplish this, then that is a life truly lived well. It does not matter how much you accomplish, what mountains you have climbed, the goals you have achieved. Only that you have lived a good life, loved much and in the end, left on good terms with yourself and those you left behind.
In the spirit of the philosophy of Billy Jack and Carlos Castenada, I leave you with this thought. We all walk the same paths but on on separate journeys. Until we learn that death is important to us as life and can walk along side it as a friend, then we will never truly live free, we will only exist and survive.
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