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11-04-2007, 12:38 AM
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"Live with Intention"
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Juneau, AK
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Too bad. Deep and Depressing is all I have!  
'Nee way, I dug this up. It's from the same story, but a different narrator, as you can probably tell.
Life isn’t fair. It may sound clichéd but it’s true. Some people live their entire lives just struggling to get by while others are hotel heiresses who inherit the world at birth and whose biggest crisis is a lack of matching shoes. Some people meet their soulmate and have seven kids while others roam the earth just trying to find her, never knowing that that one special person died in a car accident as a teenager. Some people climb Denali and get to see the top of the world, some don’t get to see any of the world. Period.
I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, and I’ve decided the only thing that is fair is death. Think about it. The stragglers and the disturbingly rich, the happily married and the disillusioned, the intrepid hikers and the blind… perhaps the only thing we have in common is that our lives all end the same way. We all die, sometime.
I remember a commercial I saw a while back, for dial-up internet. Of course, there’s really no excuse for having dial-up these days- even in the remotest of places are reachable by satellite, but this dial-up company makes their money selling dial-up, not satellite, so they make excuses.
All internet companies take you to the same internet, so why pay more?
All walks of life lead you to the same death, it’s true. It may look a little different for different people, but it’s still the same death.
The irony here, of course, is that the only real difference between dial-up and others is that dial-up gets you to that internet at a snail’s pace in comparison. I guess the same is true with life and death. Some lives are inevitably going to take you to death earlier. Heroin addicted hobos are obviously going to get to the death part faster than your average clean person with an apartment who maybe smokes occasionally. Your average clean person is probably going to get to the death part faster than, say, a health food nut.
Of course, this doesn’t take into account freak accidents, malaria, and sports fans. But generally, I think that our choices do factor into how long it is before we head to the big nuthouse in the sky.
The thing is, once we get there, we’re all equal. I don’t think that there’s a life after death. After we die, we just kind of twinkle then fizzle out of existence like a shooting star. And that happens to everyone. No matter how rich you are, money can’t help you now. You get stuck with all the rest of us, the rabble of the Earth. You are the rabble of the Earth. And it doesn’t matter that the nation or world might mourn your death, erect statues, even hold long hearings regarding exactly which country music star is the biological father of your cocaine-addled toddler. None of that matters because you’re dead. If grief and wishes alone could bring someone back from the brink, Abraham Lincoln would still be president, you could still find Steve Irwin taking down crocs on Animal Planet every week, and the split second on the freeway that it took to ruin my life would be as a distant dream.
But of course it doesn’t work that way. Why should it? My mother once told me "no one ever said life was going to be fair." I had no idea how right she was until now.
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