Life is short, the most part of us knows that...
I was thinking about this, we say that life is short and that we should enjoy every of its moments. Ok. You probably want to know where do I want to get with all that ? Well, what I'd like to know is, when exactly did you realize the value of life ? Which was the trigger event ? And do you feel like this awareness is sometimes difficult to live with ? What I mean is, do you wish sometimes to have, once again, the carefree, candid child's view on the world, others ?
Talking about the event, no need to go into details if you don't want. Do as you feel :)
For my part, until two years ago, I didn't really know that value, I knew that saying of life is short and enjoy it as much as you can but that was all. Until one day, I heard about someone's death, I didn't know that person well, but I used to see her very often. Won't go into further details but, what I want to say is how life is so quickly lost, one day someone can be there, talking and laughing with you and the other one, gone forever. But it's not the only event a second one that happened this year strengthened this idea of cherishing life and its simple moments, I can't really tell what it was except that I thought that I had probably blown up everything (but fortunately it wasn't the case).
To finish, I'd say that sometimes I wish I could be totally carefree, have this candid point of view on the world, others.
Talking about the event, no need to go into details if you don't want. Do as you feel :)
For my part, until two years ago, I didn't really know that value, I knew that saying of life is short and enjoy it as much as you can but that was all. Until one day, I heard about someone's death, I didn't know that person well, but I used to see her very often. Won't go into further details but, what I want to say is how life is so quickly lost, one day someone can be there, talking and laughing with you and the other one, gone forever. But it's not the only event a second one that happened this year strengthened this idea of cherishing life and its simple moments, I can't really tell what it was except that I thought that I had probably blown up everything (but fortunately it wasn't the case).
To finish, I'd say that sometimes I wish I could be totally carefree, have this candid point of view on the world, others.
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Permalink Reply by Opus V on -
Time is definetly relative, but what is life short compared to? The history of the earth? the lifespan of other creatures? What do you have that's actually longer than you're life? Personally, looking at it like that, and knowing that time is relative, i have a hard time wraping my mind around giving life a measurment.
I think the belief that life is short comes from our fear of dieing.
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Permalink Reply by tubejay on -
life is short compared to our perception.
most of go through life with a general feeling that it lasts forever. then we notice "all of a sudden" that we've grown another 5 years, or 10, or 30, and we wonder where the time went. that's what people mean when they say "life is short." but sometimes it's not. it's sort of like when people say "time flies when you're having fun." but other things feel very slow.
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Permalink Reply by Opus V on
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I really think time is an illusion we choose to participate in, time is a ritual that is so deeply programed into our lives that we have no idea how to live outside of it or even imagin life without it. And at the same time, we all experience time different from eachother, this makes measuring life with time like measuring a football field with air. Even if you use perception, it's still perception of time.
Or.
Maybe i haven't lived long enough to look back on life and be like "wow just yesterday i was 16" or maybe i'm not the type of person that will ever see life that way, but at the moment, my life doesnt seem to leap 5-10-15 years at a time(i'm 24). But that's just me, and i think in the end, if we choose to measure our lives as long or short, only the person living that life has the right to measure it...i can't find my ruler.
I think i see life as a chain of actions and reactions till we die, the number of actions doesn't matter, just the impact they had.
Now that i think about it, it's probly easier to figure out the value of your life than it's length.
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Permalink Reply by Mboogie on -
What "triggered" it for me was an almost death experience on my 21st birthday. let's just say there was drinking n driving involved and then an aguement erupted. Well That person lost control of the car on the highway which lead to the car flipping over and going into flames. I never had my life flash before eyes like it did that day. If it wasn't for two kind hearted guys to pull over and help me and that other person out of the car we wouldve been a goner. From that moment I couldn't see life the same anymore. Life is way too short. If it wasn't for this wake up call I think I wouldve continued my partying ways. I wouldn't have opened my eyes and realize there's more to life than what I was seeing. I really value life and I live each moment as if it were my last.
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