Death As An Addendum

Oxford defines death as 'cessation', and one must agree with that. Death is such an ominous and foreboding word that we have trouble grasping it in our own terms. Usually we acquaint it with the loss of something warm and breathing and close that ends the act of living, although I think it's broader than that. Death in general is an addendum to life and is part of what confounds deeper thinking mortals and causes the never ending search for a way to cheat it and failing that seeking a relationship with a power that supercedes everything that we call God, and if we do what ever we think falls within the requirements that God makes of us we try to convince ourselves that we have a chance of beating the death rap even though we still must experience it before we get the hoped for second chance at life.
But death as an addendum to life is a never ending series of disappointments we must all endure as long as we have a concious thought. An example of death as an addendum to life is the loss of a relationship that will never return. It is a heartbreaking experience to suffer through such a death and watch it deteriorate slowly knowing what the inevitable outcome will be but remaining helpless and giving over to hopeless as it happens.
It is a human failing to be unable to respect dignities and honesty as we kill a relationship. No one knows why we are able to convince ourselves that exactly the wrong thing is the right thing as we blindly stagger through the death throes of killing what is important and precious, but we do. Occasionally a relationship can be put back together but when that occurs it's never the same and is a futile exercise in silliness to try.
Instead we are much better off to respect death and choose life. Life is exciting and rewarding as long as we don't expect too much out of it, and part of the magical human experience is to gently greet tomorrow and expect nothing, chase less, but remain fully able to accept the greatness the day may give...... that's beating death............

The Human Thing

..... So what about this human thing? We are repressible in our outrageous behavior. Of all the creatures of the earth we are the only ones capable of dishonesty,,, and we do it well, and spread it through our lives evenly, it's always constant. We hide our weaknesses and our greed and our 'me' attitude behind everything imaginable and will certainly figure out a way to blame our shortcomings and behaviour on someone else or something else that causes our headlong lurch into disaster.
In life we will turn on those we have shared and trusted for a lifetime in a heartbeat and treat them with hatred and distrust as if suddenly all intent was to do harm. How silly. Some blame it on the human condition. Some blame it on the moon. The devil, kharma, the seasons, temperature, health, age, lack of age, the list is endless. Actually, it's either what we want or what we think we can have, and in order to get it we will justify any means to attain it. Of course we will expect God to accompany us on our journey and bless our activity and understand us and 'be there for us' and even forgive us all the while knowing the depths of meanness we sink to in pursuit is unforgivable. Our world is engaged in a holy war that will dwarf all other wars in history, meanwhile all sides think the other is crazy, and each believes God is on their side, even as we kill each other at random. At a closer glance, the animals make more sense.... even though they sometimes eat each other .....