No, I would go out without anybody knowing. EG:I would have just finished summer term and be ready for fall term, take a hiking trip (solo one, not out of the ordinary) and just not make it back.
strange how unexpected death can be... i found out today that an old friend of mine from high school died of asphyxiation in a freak accident a few weeks ago... haven't heard the details yet..
I would change too. Drastically. I would quit my job and begin furiously working on my books that need to be finished before I die. I would love without reservations, travel and move through life without fear. I would probably finally feel the true inner peace that seems unattainable being so connected to time. Embracing death and the reality of a short life I think would be incredibly positive for me... I'd like to learn how to live in such a way even without the certain death concept, though.
You'd think that wouldn't be difficult to really envision seeing as how we do indeed live under "threat" of certain death. Only when there is an immediate deadline does anything seem urgent enough to give us that sense of.. "OK!! Time to stop twiddling my thumbs and to get busy dealing with everything that so far has only been an incomplete vision!"
Well when I thought I was going down for the count for the first half of this summer all I could think of was that all the music I'd written over all my life would go unfinished, unrecorded, and that is what the biggest agony was as I lie there uncertain of my future from one moment to the next.
Truly those of us who are intensely compelled to move something through us in an expressive way find it an imparative aspect of our existence that, if it lacks completion, may be the most painful sense of incompleteness and failure a person can know.
Probably. I'd have to arrange meetings with all my closest and hang with them and tell them I loved em and hug my boo much and maybe clean my room and make some art. God that sounds pathetic. Does it? Think I'd go swimming too if I could fit it in. Snorkling or somesuch. But none of that is exactly different from what I'm already doing. I'd just have to arrange a couple trips to see my family too. I'm probably let myself worry about some things less though. And meditate some and prepare for my death.
This was what my answer was I would change too. Drastically. I would quit my job and begin furiously working on my books that need to be finished before I die. I would love without reservations, travel and move through life without fear. I would probably finally feel the true inner peace that seems unattainable being so connected to time. Embracing death and the reality of a short life I think would be incredibly positive for me... I'd like to learn how to live in such a way even without the certain death concept, though.
You are going on that tour though, yes? That's traveling. And I assume you wont be doing your normal work while your doing it. I think that as far as we know death is certain. And we don't know the when of it. Some people have a feeling about it but generally many will not have much foreknowledge. I do think we can count on death, still we can also count on life. I think maybe if we do what we need to to feed our life and what we need to to feel comfortable with our death when it comes then we're probably doing well. Love to you my friend.
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i found out today that an old friend of mine from high school died of asphyxiation in a freak accident a few weeks ago... haven't heard the details yet..
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Well when I thought I was going down for the count for the first half of this summer all I could think of was that all the music I'd written over all my life would go unfinished, unrecorded, and that is what the biggest agony was as I lie there uncertain of my future from one moment to the next.
Truly those of us who are intensely compelled to move something through us in an expressive way find it an imparative aspect of our existence that, if it lacks completion, may be the most painful sense of incompleteness and failure a person can know.
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Think I'd go swimming too if I could fit it in. Snorkling or somesuch. But none of that is exactly different from what I'm already doing.
I'd just have to arrange a couple trips to see my family too.
I'm probably let myself worry about some things less though. And meditate some and prepare for my death.
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This was what my answer was I would change too. Drastically. I would quit my job and begin furiously working on my books that need to be finished before I die. I would love without reservations, travel and move through life without fear. I would probably finally feel the true inner peace that seems unattainable being so connected to time. Embracing death and the reality of a short life I think would be incredibly positive for me... I'd like to learn how to live in such a way even without the certain death concept, though.
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I think that as far as we know death is certain. And we don't know the when of it. Some people have a feeling about it but generally many will not have much foreknowledge. I do think we can count on death, still we can also count on life.
I think maybe if we do what we need to to feed our life and what we need to to feel comfortable with our death when it comes then we're probably doing well.
Love to you my friend.
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