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REFLECTIONS ON LIFE AND DEATH

'We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.'

Marcel Proust

 

 

I recently attended a funeral. Amidst the usual eulogies, I began to reflect on the ultimate finality of death. Nothing can ever again be changed or amended. The unresolved conflicts, the difficult relationships, the spoken words that have wounded others and those that others have used to wound us can no longer be taken back. Even the unspoken words of love can now never be spoken.

How important it is then that while we are still alive we make sure that we treat each day and each relationship as if we might never experience them again. This decision makes each daily experience fully alive and significant. so that our inevitable sadness at thoughts of death can rededicate our actions to do better in all the decisions and interactions of our lives while we are still alive and are still able to make the necessary loving changes.

If one has done the best that one can with this wonderful gift of living, then death no longer becomes a painful and tragic ending, but just the next necessary step in the continuous cycle of life.

 

June Stepansky is a published poet and author who has a self-help web-site on the internet with 80 free articles available. A DIFFERENT VOICE--http://home.att.net/~adifferentvoice/ 

 

 

 

 

About the Author:

June Stepansky is a published writer and poet who has a monthly web-site on the internet-- A DIFFERENT VOICE-- featuring poetry, opinion and the exploration of a happier lifestyle For more free self-help articles visit http://home .att.net/~adifferentvoice/