Personal Extinction, . . .
. . . I call this death. I know death only too well. At my age I have gone past most all of who I once knew. I to was almost taken forteen years ago by my own stupidity. As you see, I tell it like it is because if one does not tell it like it is that one is masquerading through life. I chose not to after two tours of war, killing, watching those being killed in grizzly fashion and the oddity of people under pressure unheard of in civilian life. I was separated from the civilization from then on as reality set in and I was unprepared. I backed off of the life I had thought would be mine and drank myself to the border of life and death. I wish this upon nobody. Yet, we can’t help ourselves can we? War and rumors of war plague the human race now as it did in the beginning. We learn nothing and those who learn something die and take their education with them and a new generation starts the dance all over again. So it goes.
You probably won’t find another website that speaks of death because most feel that death is something that, if spoken of, comes to that person in an untimely manner. Death comes when it is ready for us and has no schedule. Neither does it have any regard for who you may think you are, your station in life, your race, your cultural mores, or your schedule. It is THE fact of life. Unfortunately, it is also something put away from our conscious efforts as we go through whatever life we have made for ourselves. “Life is what you make it?” No, not really. Life is what you believe and the age of seven is called in the bible: “The age of reason.” The age in which we are old enough to understand who we are and what we know. Life comes after age seven so when you consider where you are in life think back to age seven and try to recall what you were thinking in that time of your life.
Why do I mention this? Because we also understand right from wrong which is how we should reason for the rest of our lives. It is no accident that the physicians motto is: Do No Harm. We should carry that motto with us throughout our lives. Do no harm.
Unfortunately, we are a world of nations with borders and a lack of a moral compass that has existed since Adam and Eve. Today we do not understand the bible whereas even one hundred years ago most people lived their lives by that book. Religion was tantamount to life in those days because everything was much tougher than it is now. I look at the relative ease of the life we live in America and wonder that any of us lives past the age of seven. Morality comes with the bible and not without. The first death from ease is religion. Religion flourishes in hard scrabble living. At least, it used to.
The end of life is not something to worry about is it? Denial of the end of life is where so many go off the rails in life. Death just is and that is what we should understand when dealing with other people. It is a line of demarcation between the realists and dreamers. We all wake up to find those dreams are gone. So it goes with life and the sooner we all understand this the sooner we all relearn to respect one another. This is called: Brass Tacks,” in the vernacular of the human race.
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