"Life is pleasant, death is peaceful. its the transition thats troublesome."- Isaac Asimov
The problem with death is not that is it unavoidable, the problem is that nobody knows what happens next. Some people fear whats next, I consider myself in the group that fears the idea of a nothingness after death. Dont get me wrong, I know it is unavoidable. but the idea of an ending to everything you know is just scary. And that idea of a nothingness brought another question to my head that it is even harder to answer and to give a valid argument.What if there wasnt a big bang? what would there be instead? nothingness??
As we are philosophizing in this class, we must not do what the average sheep person does. the average person just ignores thsi question because of fear and continues its life as if nothing happened. Although his fear is justified his actions are not, as we must overcome that fear to live life, and not to survive life.
Accepting death is hard, I read somewhere that when you are an old person the challenge in life is to accept death. Even though we are always at the same distance from death, death is most likely to occur at an advanced age. but we must always be prepared to be face to face with it. As I stated earlier, living a life with fear is just surviving life, therefore we must overcome the fear of death to have a good life
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Nice beginning quote! And I really like your statement "to live life, ..not to survive life." But it brings to mind the question - Where in lies the difference? What I mean is, how can we define what is real living verses mere surviving? Is it right to say, as you do, that living without fear is closer to truly living? And can humans even reach an objective definition of "real life"?
ReplyDeleteIn my ersonal believe, fear is what drives us crazy. Not Knowing when we will day, makes people live with that fear every day of our lives. Is How we manage to control that fear, that keep us living, because if not we aare dead already. I like your ost, nice words and keep it going.
ReplyDeleteHi Luis! I’m a little bit the same as you, am really scared of figuring out that after this life there's NOTHING!!! But as you said we need to overcome this fear, then we wouldn't enjoy our life and we will just be locked inside our houses or doing crazy things!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that most people ignore death, but probably because they’re way too scared to realize that they’re not immortal equals they’re not as especial as they thought. Though I guess we shouldn’t worry about them you should just care about your life and making sure you’re doing enough to be happy! :D