Life and death. All around us each and every day.
Babies being brought into this world. New ideas and innovation being brought to life, new cures being created (like the one on track to hopefully one day wipeout HIV/AIDS). New companies being formed, new technologies, new ways of living – all brought to life. Life is all around us. Life is ideas, creativity, belief and action. It’s a great deal of other things, but I’m confident you get where I’m coming from.
And then death. Young men and women overseas and in our own backyard leaving us far too early. Legendary icons like MJ moonwalking off into the sunset. Loved ones who built our families, supported our families and kept our families together – leaving our earth for their time has finally come.
What matters most is life. What matters just as much is death.
Say what?
Life is everything we are while we’re living. Death is everything we must understand in order to effectively and potently live. With the realization and understanding of death, we can then truly begin to live.
I didn’t make this up. This mindset has been around forever. Reading Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom (still one of my all-time favorite reads) just seemed to refresh my memory.
Would you complain about the weather if you knew it was the last day you had to experience any kind of weather whatsoever?
Would you keep working that 9-5er with zero passion in your belly if you knew that the only one real risk from not leaving your job, would be the risk of losing the chance to someday change the world by starting your own company?
Would you keep eating like shit if you knew that by doing so, you’d wind up quicker in dirt than you would if you simply made more intelligent eating choices?
And would you take that grudge to the grave, knowing that in your days leading up to the grave, those grudges never had more than an ounce of real merit to them in the first place?
For some of us, perhaps maybe most of us, to live better we must die first. Not really, but mentally and emotionally somewhat. We must feel the need of urgency not in the way we rush through life, but in the way we live through life.
We should take what we have and create from the bottom up something everlasting. Something truly meaningful. A life full of “worth living”.
Dying a little. Living a lot.
Life is all around us. Death as well.
Each and every day we lose. Yet each and every day, we gain. In order to gain big, sometimes we just gotta lose a little.
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