Death Becomes Her – (Potential Trigger Warning about Death, Just FYI👍🏽) Perception can be reality and it’s necessary at times to let go and transition the images of self and others, that are more perpetually burdensome than bless filled. I thought long and hard about this post and while I believe in the power of positivity, some things are positively difficult. I think positive doesn’t mean ignoring pain, but more toward looking for what you can gain from the experience to make you better. There’s been a good amount of death around me the last 2-weeks. A couple of people I’ve known have passed on and through this life. And, there are some things in my life that are transitioning, a few coming to an end. Lucius Annaeus Seneca has said, “Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.” Though it’s an evolutionary experience that happens to all of us, be it an expectation and/or hope, friendship, acquaintanceship, professional, romantic or physically departed personage, Death still signifies an end. And that finality realization can be hard to deal with. I tend to isolate. More often than not it isn’t intended to hurt others, but it is important for me to know what I’m thinking or feeling before I invite others in. And while I learned to isolate as a child as a survival coping mechanism, I’ve transitioned that to a more introspective helpful though I have to be mindful. It also helps that I have people in my life who are safe spaces where I can turn. Some people get stuck in the pain of loss and it becomes their reality. They wake up, wash up, some put makeup on and, a nice covering of deathly thoughts: killing prospects, murdering future happiness, assault and battery to love in trade for familiarity.
The human body can die but so can dreams and hopes unrealized. I’ve been thinking about this, and certainly during the past 2-weeks. What am I allowing to die due to being too scared, too “comfortable” and/or complacent? George Bernard Shaw said, “I want to be all used up when I die.” We all have these areas but what am I willing to do that’s different? Deuteronomy 30:19: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” Am I willing to live? Are you or are you merely willing to just exist? Live Well. Do Well. Be Well 💜🫂
