You're Gonna Die

One day I looked up, suddenly, my friends were dying off...I'm 38. My relatives were dying off, my dreams and ambition's were dying off my world, as I knew it, was dying off. How? How do I keep this from happening? You don't.
In one week,11 of my friends left the planet, was it something I said? My marriage ended and my favorite grandmother died( yeah, you're not suppose to have those but I did). I quit all the "money making schemes" I put in place to make my husband happy, I quit my jobs and I quit on myself... for a moment. How do I keep my loved ones from dying off?
You can't really but what you can do I stop! Stop and appreciate what you had with them blah blah blah hippie shit and new agey psychobabble. It isn't wrong. I had to change this way  of this thinking so that the dying, death and departure wasn't personal, wrenching and a dramatic loss. I put forward those who were important to positive life and thought, they came slowly. Notice how negative things tend to linger and hover feeding off the very breath and energy you don't have? I digress; positive thought, positive energy and positive self love will keep you believing, dreaming, imagining, and making goals. When people exit, you know whether it was choice or divine intervention, they too have a mission.

Keeping their memory alive in your heart will carry you until next you meet. Death is a part of life; more hippie shit but truth, we all know this so why is it a shock when it happens? Theory: Selfishly we think, "What will happen to me when they go"? Nothing. Why not change the attitude to, " See you another sunrise my friend"...doesn't that sound nice? See you soon Grandma, grandpa, brother, art teacher. Let's have lunch on Saturn during a hail storm and shoot craps to pass time, or whatever dead people in transition do. Why can't we, humans, just be here now? We are conditioned unfortunately but we can change. Don't get excited change is good and not everything has to change control freak, just they way we look and approach things. You can still eat horribly(that'll get you closer to death) or do your extreme sports and break something else or whatever else it is you do just take some time to be...wherever it is, in that moment, with those people and that feeling of being alive. When we are dead...the true adventure begins, the lessons are over...for a time. Enjoy this life. If you should be so lucky to get more than this one remember, this a gift you're being given but eventually...You're Gonna Die.