Life's short ... and then you ...
We are all aware of the inevitable ...
No one yet has figured out how to cheat the BIG one (maybe the "taxes" one --sort of ? ... but they usually get caught anyway).
So, I was struck by an article in USC's Daily Trojan the other day (I was down at their Dental School for a long-overdue dental health appointment).
It was about a freshman who was killed in a car accident on the way from his home in Northern California down to campus in Los Angeles ... ready to start his college career. His parents and grandmother were with him, but he was the only one killed? The article didn't give details about how he was killed, just that it involved a flat tire ...
Most of the article focussed on the difference he made for other students in his senior high school class.
The "unsaid" or subtext of the article was just how sad, ironic, unfortunate, etc. that a student with such promise, literally on his way to a new beginning, had his life end before he got there?
Not from something stupid or terribly freakish ... just from something random, accidental, unfortunate ...
The great secret is that no one knows the exact MOMENT they will die ...
Hopefully, we will all be on our way to something new and exciting when it happens?
Chris out.
No one yet has figured out how to cheat the BIG one (maybe the "taxes" one --sort of ? ... but they usually get caught anyway).
So, I was struck by an article in USC's Daily Trojan the other day (I was down at their Dental School for a long-overdue dental health appointment).
It was about a freshman who was killed in a car accident on the way from his home in Northern California down to campus in Los Angeles ... ready to start his college career. His parents and grandmother were with him, but he was the only one killed? The article didn't give details about how he was killed, just that it involved a flat tire ...
Most of the article focussed on the difference he made for other students in his senior high school class.
The "unsaid" or subtext of the article was just how sad, ironic, unfortunate, etc. that a student with such promise, literally on his way to a new beginning, had his life end before he got there?
Not from something stupid or terribly freakish ... just from something random, accidental, unfortunate ...
The great secret is that no one knows the exact MOMENT they will die ...
Hopefully, we will all be on our way to something new and exciting when it happens?
Chris out.
3 Comments:
Hopefully we will go having lived...
Have you lived?
Have you done everything you wanted to do?
Do you have what you want?
Is there something, or someone, you've yet to pursue?
You don't know if tomorrow's the day... or even if today's the end...
So have you chosen to sit around and wish for it?
... want for it?
... whine for it?
... or are you going out to make it yours?
We can't choose how or when we die...
But we can choose how we live.
Once again, Gurustu comes thru with words of sage wisdom (albeit, devoid of HTML code -- Chris is a quick study, ain't he?). I love how the word "whine" sneaks it's way into the comment, as well.
I like the concept of seeing life as an adventure and mystery, with a big secret at the end. Profound post, Chunk. And I suspect we all WILL be on our way to something new and exciting, if we look at life that way, even if it's on the way to pick up kitty litter at Petco. . .
Life is in kitty litter, as in everything around us... some things we just value more than others.
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