Minutes ago, I found out someone I knew and liked, someone I thought I had all the time in the world to get to know and become friends with, has died. The first thing most of us think of when someone dies is how? We want to make sense of such a permanent occurence. When the death occurs suddenly, we are left speechless and devastated, the loss all the more acute because we had no time to prepare for it. Death hits hard whether you see it coming or not, but the unknowing, versus knowing and steeling oneself, is like a punch to the gut out of nowhere. Perhaps your hands would have flown up to protect yourself, perhaps not, but the reality is you weren't given the option of choosing.
I will pray for this person's family and remember again how there are no coincidences in life, people are placed in our paths for a reason. There is beauty and meaning in every encounter, if only we have the sense to recognize it. Her premature death also reminds me of the imperative to move through life with the understanding that it is fleeting.
On his deathbed, Michaelangelo told his apprentice, "Draw Antonio, draw Antonio draw, and do not waste time."
2 comments:
Yes girl, time is always moving forward with our without us and our recognition. It's like whatever you want to be, do or have then NOW is the time. All we have in now...the eternal moment of NOW. I learned that at Agape from Rev. Michael Beckwith. Sorry to hear about your friend's passing and thanks for sharing. Love ya :-)
You are so right! The universe keeps sending us messages to "Live now". Yet it is so easy to maintain the status quo. A death is painful but it does shock us into the realization that life is short and unpredictable.
Thanks for the reminder. I share your feeling of lost opportunity.
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