sunday: november 22nd

There is only one certainty in life.

I've had this conversation with a lot of people, and it's the idea of the most powerful human on the planet. It's something I picked up from a show I'm so glad that I watched and never stopped thinking about it. To the best of our knowledge, we are the only species blessed with the gift of being able to engage in complex interactions through speech, combined with other forms of communication, and I find it insanely ironical that we shy away from the important conversations and engage in (mostly) useless ones instead. One such conversation is that surrounding death.

Think about it, mention the uncertainty of when you'll have to deal with death to your parents and you'll be met with reactions like 'Why are you thinking about all that now?', 'You have years left, don't think about all that.' and while it's an understandable reaction to an extent, it's also a demonstration of shying away from important conversations.

Coming back to the idea of the most powerful human on the planet. We've always come across pleas to accept that some things are not in our control in life, and other arenas, and to accept that there are always uncertainties, and yes there comes great power with accepting that there are uncertainties in life; personally, I enjoy the uncertainties, where's the fun in predictable? But you know what's more powerful? Accepting the one absolute certainty in life, death. You are going to die, get over it. It's going to come to an end, and what comes after that is left to your beliefs and imaginations. But the point is, this is going to end. You will be 6 feet beneath the land you're walking on, it could be tomorrow, it could be seventy years from now.

But, think for a second, fast forward years into the future and just think of a place in your life where you're okay with the end, that's the aim. To be okay to meet the Reaper. That's the place you should aim to be at. It'll expand into a multitude of questions, I leave those to your thought process.

Expand this into all arenas of your life and it'll just push you to do better, ever so slightly.