With every new life born, one is taken away. The new life is celebrated while the loss life is mourned. What a vicious cycle we have trapped ourselves in, When allowing one to be good & the other to be bad. Yes, Death sucks but its part of life, it comes with the title of being human. As I try to point out in most of my blogs, Life keeps going whether we are ready for it or not. I have seen many deaths in my career and tried as hard as I could to stop this inevitable event. ER was a great show but far from reality, I can count on one hand how many people I have "saved" at the time & 0 people who have actually lived long enough to see the outside of a hospital. What I couldnt stop asking myself each time I performed CPR on someone's 90 year old grandma is whats the point ? Hear me out I'm not heartless, I promise. The truth is grandma is 90 years old and is probably ready to die, I mean the lady lived a long life, Why am I pounding on her chest dumping drugs in her body & exposing her to being a show for neighbors & strangers to watch, when the outcome is probably one that will not turn out so good. Of course its always the family pushing to save her but in my years of being in this field I must say its probably one of the most selfish acts humans do. It drives me insane to see people on life support or stuck to a bed their whole life & the family cant let them go because they are not ready to accept it. Ask yourself, if a machine was breathing for you & You had no ability to do anything for yourself but lay in a bed and crap in your diaper, would you want to be kept alive ? Death is never going away, why are letting it destroy us before it knocks at our door ?
Life is simple, we are born then we die. Enjoy life now! Love those who love you & forget the emotional attachments we hold onto. Let people live however they want to whether you agree or not. Embrace them for who they are, their mistakes, accomplishments, & indivduality. Do not waste your time on the stuff they did wrong & what you did right, does it really matter? Do the things you want to do, even if that means being a little selfish, in the end our story is the only one we get to own. Live to be free, not for people, status, material objects, or anything at all. How can you be happy that way, when there is no secure thing that brings you happiness? Well think about it, happiness is no longer limited. The happiness is all around you everyday, as long as you look past your comfort zone.
People die & one day you will too. The only ones who can say they would like their families to stop their lives after its our time to go, are the one who cant share their own story because they have not started living yet. Your story is not your struggles or how hard you worked to move on in life, in fact your story is not even about you. A character in the story of life is who we are & the chapters are the survivors that make it long enough to learn how to create a new chapter. How do you want your story? The story of many chapters, settings, experiences & foreshadowing, that end up becoming a series, Or a story with one chapter, one character & one ending.
There's always an ending, Why waste the pages by skipping to the last page?
Life is your author, You are the main character, The journey along the way is your Table of contents, & Death is your Publisher ~Evelyn Martinez~
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