I love having meals with my colleagues.
More importantly, I love these people.
I happened to be exceedingly blessed with good working company. I am always entertained by a very funny cubbie (ie: cubicle) neighbour and am surrounded by many intelligent, witty and wise colleagues who truly possess a good heart.
Today, while chomping on some badly cooked food from the canteen, I am once again enlightened- this time on issues related to life and death.
You see, in between bites, my colleagues and I were discussing on the most efficient and painless way of committing suicide (disclaimer: we were really approaching the subject from an intellectual perspective). We brainstormed various ideas and discussed their feasibility, practicality and the science involved. Then, we considered euthanasia and how it would feel like to plot one's own death. Finally, despite varying viewpoints, we concurred that it's not the way that we die that is important but how we face death. I.E.: We gotta be ready for it.
Now, as if living is not hard enough- the living needs so much courage to press on in this mad mad world- we need to prep ourselves for death as well? Good Lord! May you strengthen our hearts! Really, if most of us can hardly pinpoint the reason for living, can we actually face death? Is it ever possible to face death without struggle? Are we all ready to embrace afterlife (or to some, simply nothingness)? My suspicion tells me that most of us are in reality nervous about death- even as we draw closer to it everyday.
My colleague, this wonderful and inspiring woman, offered me this perspective (and may I summarise) :
See life as a gift and not of your own. Life does not belong to us. We can decide what to do with our possessions. We can decide when to buy or throw things away. But life is not a thing. How can we say 'it's my life' when we neither have the right to decide our birth nor death? Hence, life is a gift. If bestowed upon me, I will take it as a treasure and use it well. If taken away, there's no loss as I merely return what was loaned to me.
At the end of lunch, I was inspired to see my life as a blessing. In a world where everything's gotta be about 'me', it's really refreshing to see oneself as something else besides the center of the universe.
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I haven't had the wisdom to see life that way.
Thank you for sharing babe. =)
You have it darling!! You are one of the rare gems in the world who can love as one should truly love. Thank you for loving me Fanny, I am very fortunate to be your friend.
I may not always say this, but I feel along with you. When you are sad, I am also sad. I know you dropped tears recently, I may be silent but I am walking alongside with you. Fanny, you are precious both in our eyes and God's. I think about you often. When you need a shoulder, pls remember me, I want to be there for you. Love.
love this post of yours,ah joy...such great wisdom..
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