What A Waste

[wlotus]

If I spend most of my life thinking about and dreading death, I will be too preoccupied to enjoy life.

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[rockbirthedme.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[saltdawg.livejournal.com]

It is a hurdle that few people can jump, but once you can get over fearing death, life becomes so much more than you ever believed it could be.

Sometimes the feeling comes from the fundamentalist true believers who have no fear because they believe in Elysian Fields, and sometimes it comes from simply coming *this close* to dying and making it out intact.

The unfortunate part is that sometimes I have to put myself in dire jeopardy in order to remind myself...

[liquefy.livejournal.com]

I was one of those emo-types for a while in high school. That is embarrassing to admit. However, one of the things that I taught myself from my thoughts on darkness and sadness is that the only thing to fear about death is how you'll die -- like, I don't want a painful death. I fear the pain much more than the death. Because, once you're dead, you're just... dead. But, of course, part of you will go living on for eternity.

I just finished rereading Slaughterhouse Five. One of Vonnegut's themes in the book is time. He speaks of every moment being eternal, so after death, you will always live on because all of your moments occur simultaneously and infinitely. Cool concept.

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

I'm still working on this, myself. Let me know if you come up with any good methods.

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

So far what has worked is to remind myself of that fact and then think of something else.