Author: meditation

I wanted to talk about something we try to avoid talking as a society. Death. When one is born, there is only one certainty in this world. Every living being that is born will eventually die. There is no question about it. It is the only guarantee one can provide in life. There is no guarantee one will be healthy or wealthy or will find love etc. But we all die. Although death is this certainty, we are never willing to accept that as a fact of life – especially in the western world. Another thing about death is that it is uncertain as to timing. As we are talking, I may stop breathing and die right here. Intellectually we know that we may die someday. But we think that day is not going to be today. We go on about our lives as if we may not die today. Our default mode is that I may not die today. How about we look at this just a little differently? How about we change our default mode to I may die today. That does not mean we will die today but just as it says, we may die today. We may not die today, but we may. If someone gives us a date certain let’s say one week for now; we will die for sure. How will that change our day to day decisions? Will we worry about someone who cut us off in traffic? Will we worry about small things that we argue about with our friends and families? Let’s contemplate that and see how we can change our decisions based on the fact that we may die today.