Death

Death. It's the one thing that happens to every single one of us at some point.

Yet, have you ever noticed how much it scares us?

It's not a foreign concept. There is Life and Death. It's part of a cycle, one that has been going on since the dawn of life in the beginning of time. It brings everything into balance, full circle. Every creature that has life will one day lose it. We are born into existence, then one day we die. That has always been the way of things.

What I can't wrap my head around is why death is such a terrifying mystery to us. After all these centuries.

Is it how we might die that strikes horror into our hearts?

Do we fear the timing of our demise?

Or is it maybe a reluctance to acknowledge what may become of us after death?

Maybe we don't even know... we just fear. But what will fear get you? Nothing but wasted time.

"Never take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway." This is brilliant, plain and simple. (Granted, I have absolutely no clue to whom I should give credit...)

Think about it. We can't avoid death, no matter how we might try. None of us can. It doesn't pick and choose. So why live in constant trepidation of what is inevitable?

I am in no way attempting to write all this with a tone of desolation and hopelessness. Quite the contrary, actually.

The message is: Live life to its fullest. Die a happy person one day. Whether that day is coming sooner rather than later or won't arrive for another hundred years, it's out of our control.

We cannot alter the past, but we can determine out present. And, in doing so, we can better our future.

Carpe diem, my friends.