Are you ready to die? This question came up to me last night while I was trying to think about a hard decision I had to make. The thought about death strengthens us to appreciate life even more because it is so precious just to be able to live.
Perhaps, if being asked that question, no one would say ‘YES’ because I am sure there is so much for people to do and to explore in life, so much to be attached. Sometimes, when we get frustrated or hopeless, we tend to question of why I am here, however, if we get calmer, we will see that the question was just a quest for meaning rather than a desire to end.
My uncle has cancer, last stage. He has got worse day by day and the pains almost wanted to kill him. Yet, everyday, he still cultivates a hope of being better, he asks to get chemo treatment no matter how much pain the treatment creates for him afterward. All he strives for is just to live a little more and to spend time with his children, nothing else matters at that moment.
Though, will the question ever get an answer? We as humans never want to leave things we have attached to. And we keep asking for more. Then we realize that more does not equal with happiness. More just does the opposite. More blinds our sight from seeing the joy of being at the present moment and of the fact that we are alive. More erodes the appreciation we have for everything we are receiving. More makes us afraid of dying.
As how it is said in Christian, let us not fear of death and always prepare ourselves for when it comes because it is enough and now is enough.
