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The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. I am old and move slowly, and the slower runner has overtaken me.
Socrates, in Plato’s Apology
Yesterday I was walking back to the house alone after feeding the pigs. Stars coming out, it was a glorious and brisk Shenandoah evening. On my mind and heart was a loved one who is nearing the end of life. I was deeply struck: how bracing it must be to face death as imminent. How seldom I myself really reckon with the possibility, nay the coming reality of my own death.
I suppose this is just one of those things in human life. Life is so full, so demanding; only with real effort can I get myself to reckon with its simply screeching to a halt. Death is very difficult to imagine.
I really, really love being alive. It is with gratitude and a recognition that it could have been otherwise that I say this. There is so much I still want to do, and so many ways I need to grow. And especially, there is so much I still want to do and to be for my family, my friends, and others! It can make me short of breath.
Continued below.
Thinking about My Death - LifeCraft
Socrates, in Plato’s Apology
Yesterday I was walking back to the house alone after feeding the pigs. Stars coming out, it was a glorious and brisk Shenandoah evening. On my mind and heart was a loved one who is nearing the end of life. I was deeply struck: how bracing it must be to face death as imminent. How seldom I myself really reckon with the possibility, nay the coming reality of my own death.
I suppose this is just one of those things in human life. Life is so full, so demanding; only with real effort can I get myself to reckon with its simply screeching to a halt. Death is very difficult to imagine.
I really, really love being alive. It is with gratitude and a recognition that it could have been otherwise that I say this. There is so much I still want to do, and so many ways I need to grow. And especially, there is so much I still want to do and to be for my family, my friends, and others! It can make me short of breath.
Continued below.
Thinking about My Death - LifeCraft