I realise this is a bit generalised, and that there are more things you can consider, but sometimes it's nice to categorize, although we should be careful with such things...


Ways of living

There are two different ways of living your life. There is living as though it is your last day on earth, everyday. There is also living through assuming there will be another day. These two ways differ quite a bit, but more importantly apply to different kinds of lives, as well. If there is indeed another day, there are preparations to be made so as to insure that you will keep living the next, with food, etc. If you run around in the grass, holding hands with the people you care about and eating sausages at the same time (I am not assuming this is what everyone would do; I, for one, might not eat sausages) your readiness for the following day is minimal. If, everyday, you sit and hold hands and eat sausages, those who rely on you to do your duty will not be best pleased. In addition, you might well grow obese from all the sausages (unless you run in the grass enough). Therefore, the "last day of my life" lifestyle is not an obvious method to apply to the "there is another day" situation. There are things to be done, things to be prepared. But what are we preparing for? What is it we need to do? Do we have some God-given plan, some idea of what we will do once we've prepared enough? What? Granted, you might be worried about your pension. Is then life a preparation for growing old in comfort? It's a discouraging thought. Or, is this endless preparation simply to keep living, to stay alive for as long as possible? Did we just not stop and think why? The conclusion I draw, is that we still have to prepare, we still have to think ahead to a future we assume will come. But I also think, that if you consider what you might do on the last day of the earth, you will also know what matters. And maybe there's some time for that, too.



Words by fungi
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Written on 2007-04-02 at 15:37

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