If You Choose To Live

If you choose to live, it is much MUCH more than simply "accepting" that you will one day die. Accepting that you will one day die is a given, living isn't. There are so many who come here kicking and screaming, resisting all the way - and that resistance becomes the cornerstone of day to day life - - that's not living.

Refusing, refuting, kicking, screaming, and taking on a slew of self-defeating and in many cases, self-annihilating habits isn't really life. Well, it's a form of life, possibly the most painful form. Refusing to live is not comparable with "I've made peace with death" by any means.

You have to look beyond, look ahead. Imagine what it might be like X-amount of years from now when you are on your deathbed. What show is going to be happening? When that big moment comes, the question surely will not be - are you at peace' the question will be - did you live your biggest and best possible life. Did you live fully, completely, totally? What do you want the answer to that question to be? The answer "I found peace with the fact that one day I will die" does not answer the question. Did you live? Did you LIVE?

If you choose to live, it's more than knowing you're going to die one day. That's like a feast you never took a bite of. What kind of life is that? If you choose to live, you have to taste life, love life, suck it in, savor it, blow it out, breathe more in lovingly, tough, feel, do, be, be, be, be....that life is luscious, full, sumptious, delightful, joyful.

If you choose to live, you don't have to worry about death. It will come in its own time and you will embrace it with the same vigor and vim you embraced all of life with. That's a totally different thing than making peace with death - it's making peace with being alive, making peace with life itself. You are not fighting being here, you are present with it and taking the biggest bite possible out of the feast you are presented with.

It's a choice. And everyday, every moment, you are presented with it. Choose well.


Blessings.
- Darshan




© 2010 Darshan F Jessop