By Ahsan
“I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.”
Katherine Hepburn
“O God, with Your name, I die and I live” is the Islamic prayer before falling asleep
Did you catch the mistake in the title of the article?
It's not a mistake.
It may not make sense because you believe you only die once. That's what we all think. But the other day, I woke up and had this epiphany that when we wake up, we wake up from a sort of death.
You might believe that you live every day and then die one day, which is a problem.
Recently, I got to play a game of golf with my high school buddy. It was a beautiful day. I had been looking forward to it all week.
I enjoyed myself immensely, and honestly, I took it in because I was thinking about genuinely living my day, not rushing through it, based on my recent epiphany that slumber is a sort of death.
My friend, on the other hand, was off. He was there in body, but he was not there, which is highly unusual for him. I asked him later what was up, and he said he did not like that course and its setup (narrow fairways and wicked hard undulating greens.)
What? "But you were golfing on a gorgeous sunny day on the Niagara Escarpment, with brand new clubs, an electric cart, with your buddy, and you were GOLFING!" I thought to myself.
That's the problem: we all know we will die one day, but we don't think it might come sooner or happen suddenly. And so, we live in our head and sometimes as busy fools and, to top it off, oblivious to the gift of life we live.
In a sense, a day is a lifetime but we don’t see it that way.
Because we know we will die someday in the distant future, we squander our life being busy, hurried, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and not entirely satisfied with every moment we get to live.
You, too, might be under the mistaken impression that you will die one day, but what if you consider the state of sleep a sort of death that happens to all of us every night?
Isn't it true that when you fall asleep, you are gone in a sense, and isn't it a miracle every morning that you even wake up?
Not everyone gets to wake up to live the next day. You don't know if you will be here next year to enjoy that pre-booked trip or for that wedding you plan on attending. I am not trying to bum you out; I am trying to point out that each day we are given is a miracle!
Each day you live is a lifetime itself.
It is a "gift of a lifetime."
Are you treating it as the gift that it is?
You may not be here tomorrow.
Why are you so busy? What do you miss out on when you are annoyed by petty issues?
What good is it to be upset or sad about anything if life could end tomorrow?
Tomorrow may never come!
What do you get to do today with the gift of a lifetime⎯the "ultimate present?"
Here is the truth about life⎯Life Is Not A Rehearsal! Go Live Life To the Fullest Today!
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