Have you ever thought about death before?
Death is an issue that is often avoided by many...whenever death is concerned, people will be uncomfortable talking about it.
Death is also can issue that is usually talked about by the elderly, the old, the sick..etc.
You do not really see the young who appear energetic and vibrant talking about death.
Don't you think it is kind of weird as to why people do not talk about it when everyone will get to experience death sooner or later?
Why is it so?
Death is something that is unknown, hidden..
There are several reasons as to why people do not want to die that i currently observe.
1. They have unfinished business..whether it is with regards to family, friends, carrier, education, sports or anything that one desires to complete but is not completed.
2. They are afraid of what comes after death...(who knows? unless one experiences it rite?)
3. They do not want to leave the things and people that they currently have and own eg. money.
4. They just don't want their life to end so quickly.
People always say, "i am too young to die!"
What i can say is, no one is too young to die.
When death comes our way, even science cannot stop it..
Anyone can die anytime...you do not really know or predict when one will die right?
It comes like a rushing wind..
There was a song that goes, "i am, a flower quickly fading, here today and gone tmr, a wave tossed in the ocean, a vapour in the wind."
This song shows how short our life is and how quickly it will come to past.
It also shows the fragility of life.
You must be wondering how come i suddenly talked about death..
These few days, i have been asking God to speak to me, cause i really want to hear from Him..it just feels kinda weird that everything i do, i do it without asking Him nor waiting for His reply..i felt that the things that i say, do not really have the essence of God within it.
What i didn't realise is that God always spoke to me..and today it all started to make sense.
I was rushing for the class party today and i was already quite late...
As i was walking to my house busstop, i saw the bus...so my first reaction was to run to the next busstop..and so, i crossed the road without the traffic light.
The many cars stopped because of the traffic light and i started to run across..i didn't see a motorbike travelling in the midst of the cars and it almost ran over me..
It was kinda fast and if i were to take a step further and faster, i would have been in the hospital already..
Quite scary rite?
But what amazed me was my own reaction...i wasn't even a tiny bit scared..
i just retreated then ran forward again..
I was telling my two other friends that it felt as if i was ready to go..
Because i had previous incidents with cars almost banging me down in the past i got really scared and tramatized..it was different this time..very different.
I started to think about death..
And i recalled about the news of people dying all over the world because of all the natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunami, floods..etc.
It is really getting increasingly prevalent that every week there is at least 1 natural disaster killing thousands.
I also started to think about what me and my friends were talking about this week..
I started off telling one of my classmate, "i think i going to have a stroke soon.."
she said, "why?"
I continued.."cause my eyebrown has been twitching non-stop for like a week already..and everytime i do my work then it gets very irritating..it was as if my heartbeat transferred to my eye brown through the veins..so i felt the heartbeat in my eye browns.."
She laughed and laughed..haha^^
Then she shared it will with rest of the people...then they all laugh..
When my other friend heard this, she started talking about someone she know collapsed and fainted during a bbq or something..then she got up and said she was fine and she continued mixing around and laughing and the moment she got back home after the bbq, she died.
She died because she got a stroke..and she didn't know..
Don't you think it is really sudden? who knows what is going to happen tmr?
So live your days to the fullest.
I was reading a small book on the bus just now..
And it also talks about death.
It talks about us being made to last forever...
That "This life is preperation for the next."
You have probably heard this like 1 million times..but i still wanna share^^
While life on earth offers many choices, eternity offers only 2 choices: heaven or hell."
Your relationship with God on earth will determine your relationship to him in eternity.
The Bible says, "God has planted eternity in the human heart."
You have an inborn instinct that longs for immorality. God designed you, in his image, to live for eternity.
So, even though we know that everyone eventually dies, death always seems unnatural and unfair.
When you fully comprehend that there is more to life than just here and now, and you realise that life is just a preparation for eternity, you will begin to live differently on a daily basis.
like in every situation, circumstance, decisions..you won't really mind and care about the small little petty things anymore..
You will realise that the clothes you wear, what you have will not last..what will last is your relationships with people and how you act.
Every act of our lives strikes some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking...
Another analogy is your life here is like the nine months that you spent in your mother's womb were not an end in themselves but preparation for life.
Your time here won't be the last of you..
When you die, it will be like your birthday into eternal life.
My geog teacher said something today to motivate us for our A lvls..
She said, "you only have 30 more days to A lvls.."
We said, "but we choose to live in denial."
She said, "But the A lvls will still come, so you just have to embrace it."
Its just like death..if you choose to ignore it and live the days of your life as if you got forever, think again.
Years ago, a popular slogan encouraged people to live each day as "the first day of the rest of your life."
Actually, it would be wiser to live each day as if it were the last day of your life. It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day."
God bless you guys!
