Saturday, January 24, 2009

Drizzle

I have no pity for people who don't value their lives.
I could never cry for a man who dies while behind the wheel intoxicated.
I could never mourn a suicide.
I don't feel sorry for you when you complain,
Because life is the best thing that will ever happen to you.
It was by the most unlikely odds that you were conceived,
Which makes you more lucky than the thousands of others who will never even have the luck of being born.
In a way, I find my life more affirming and powerful than someone who believes in an afterlife, too.
If you're just living to get somewhere when you die,
Then you're hardly living.
By acknowledging that we only get this one life,
70 or so years on a planet that has been around for billions,
Well, it becomes clear that we are so very finite.
We are a candle that is lit and then instantaneously blown back out,
And the world just keeps turning.
So make the most of every second you have here.
Don't waste your life in dogmatic superstitions,
Hoping to become eternal.
I quit that;
Let go of any imaginary ideas about forever.
I want to live for every second I have here,
Because when I die,
It's done.
Life is temporary,
Which is why I see it as so precious.
Make the most of every breath,
And for the world's sake,
Don't waste your life.

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