"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
When I first read this ironic statement from the book "Tuesdays with Morrie", I was able to reflect on what the statement wants to convey. I fully understood the statement above when I had a serious illness that was almost a near death experience last November 2008. Yes, I almost die. No friends visiting me, no family with me, nothing except myself. It was harder than what I thought. But when I was able to survive from that near death experience, I became a different man. My Line of thinking changed radically. I now look at the basic things in my life, my family, my true friends who really care and support and give me happiness. And I believe these are the things that make our life meaningful. And that I can say, when I die at this very moment, I won't regret anything and that I'm already ready.
A wonderful testimony, I guess your observations provide part of the answer to the (sometimes un-answeerable) question of: "Why do people die?" Death, like any other crisis, offers an opportunity to tune in to what life is really about, even if you're dying at the time. Too bad more of us don't learn the lessons about meaning, and what really matters (the spiritual, actually) early on so our lives could have a healthy focus. I too have been (as I thought, anyway) at the brink of death on one ocassion. I realized that I was okay with it, strangely enough. Of course, I'd been through my own life/death training course several years before when I was diagnosed with cancer. Thanks for a meaningful post.
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Thank you Linda for your inspiring comment. I'm happy to know that someone has read my blog. Thank you so much!
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