Death

When I was 17, I read a quote somewhere like “If you live each day as if it is last, someday you most certainly will right”
It made an impression on me and since then I look in the mirror every morning and ask myself if today will the last day of my life what I wanna do ...what I am about to do today. And whenever the answer is been “No” for too many days in a row, I know; I need to change something. Remembering that all be dead soon, helped me make the big choices in life.
Because almost everything, all external expectations, our pride, our fear of embarrassment and failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die, is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to loose. You are already naked. There is no reason, not to follow your heart.
Death is a useful but purely an intellectual concept. No one wants to die. Even people, who wanna go to heaven, don’t wanna die. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one is ever escaped it and that is as it should be. Because death is, the very likely, the single best invention of life. It clears out the old to make the way for the new. Right now the new are we.
But some day not you want from now; you will gradually become old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic but its quit true. Your time is limited. So don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dormant which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions ground out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
In late 60’s there was a publication – Whole Earth, created by Stuart Brand. On the back cover of their final issue, there was a photograph of an early morning country road. The words below that photograph were “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”. The farewell message they signed off was “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”.
And I always wished that for myself – “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”.