Death: The Roommate of Life - More To That

(1) Remember that Life and Death live on the same side of the same coin. Death is not idly waiting for us at the end of our journeys—no, it is always with us in the lives we lead now. Being acutely aware of this allows us to reflect on what really matters, and keeps us open to the new perspectives that Life has in store for us.

When you are mindful of the close interaction between Life and Death, these very moments will reveal themselves to be great moments of pause and reflection. Death’s act of editing your identity is Life’s opportunity to bring forth novel perspectives.

Death’s sole responsibility as an editor is to remove the items that Life has written down that are no longer applicable or possible. You can think of Life as the additive editor, and Death as the subtractive one.

Sometimes we are reminded that he also has the ability to hurt us deeply.

Here is where we can introduce the second editor of our list.

Being mindful of our limited time in this world prevents us from spending our energy on all the wrong things.

Much of the choices we make on a daily basis are an effort to keep Life focused on growing our list and to keep Death from doing any work at all.

As complicated as it may seem, there are only two editors of this document.

Each experience we have, whether good or bad, is recorded into this list by Life. Depending on the lifestyle we lead, the pace of these additions can be faster or slower, and continue to occur well into adulthood.

There are many ways people define the existence of a human life. Some say that it has to do with the vitality of your physical body and the presence of a working heart. Some say that it has nothing to do with the physical body and has everything to do with consciousness instead. Some even say that it starts when you decide to believe in a certain r... See more