The Courage to Be Mortal
The biggest gift you can give yourself while you’re alive… is to live.
The temptation in modern day civilization is to die before our end. To give in to distraction, to give our power away to the future and past long before fully experiencing the present as it comes. To withdraw instead of attack, and diminish instead of expand.
This is death, only of a different sort.
Imagine driving through the Rocky Mountains or Alps without ever touching them. Without ever getting out of the car and breathing that fresh mountain air. Imagine watching the sky without ever flying, or looking at photos of a waterfall without ever standing beneath one, feeling its power and cool mist. Imagine talking with people but never connecting. Imagine all the things you dream of doing being left on the table forever.
Everything you ever wanted to experience, sidelined in lieu of responsibility. Obligation. Societal norm. Expectation.
From a different angle, imagine thinking but never feeling. Never feeling the lows of heartbreak, but never experiencing the thrill of sheer joy or love, as if you can see the world but when you reach outward, your hand can’t feel anything.
Imagine living in a fog so dense that you pass through your life as a spectator without ever having taken the controller and learned how to use it.
How are you going to feel at the end of your life?
When you have five minutes left and no way to rectify the dismissal you lead your journey with?
This is a wake up call.
Buy the roses. Play the music. Burn the candles. Use the dishes. Sell the house. Buy the house. Travel to the place. Swim naked in the ocean just to say you did.
Sing.
Dance.
Live recklessly enough to create memories so potent that they transcend this life and you carry them into the next.
Life is precious, powerful and fleeting. Do not let it slip by without giving it your all, and yourself the gift of absolute presence while you’re still here.
Remember you have to die. So create a beautiful life.
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