blueeyedangel

I wonder sometimes about how hung people in our culture are about death. I think we are more hung up on it than on sex. I believe there is a buddhist meditation about dying sort of where you imagine yourself dying and then even decaying and returning to the earth or whatever. I guess it is supposed to help relieve anxieties about something we will all experience but never know when we will,and to help us realize our interconnectedness to every other human as we will all die and return to dust. When we imagine it happening it will no longer have the power to make us anxious or fearful, and we'll appreciate the life we got left no matter how dreadful it sometimes feels.

Now imagining it and embracing it with reckless or even suicidal behavior is a totaly different thing.

I know many people who it seems that their life is so unbearable rather than kill themselves outright they just do it slow with alchohol, drugs or whatever.

That makes me mad, and I want to tell them "wake up! awake to life's possibilities to the love around you! It isnt that bad you have somuch worth and I can see it why cant you! "

but then I remember a wise man once said people dont WANT to awaken and they wont thank you for trying to awaken them. So I can just lead my life as best as I can and hope they find their own way down the path.

love and peace
to all of you even those who dont want it.