Love...Time...Death..The Three Abstractions Of Life.
What connects us together? What are the things we require that is time bounded? What's out there that we can't control?
Everything we ever need, all we've ever desired, all that we want to accomplish and all that we wanna be always brings us to the three abstractions of life. Simply because, despite all we want to accomplish, we long for Love, we wish we had more Time, and in most cases, we fear Death, so we call It "The Enemy"
Love; A Gift Beyond Life
I've heard several people define love in many ways, and in all of these ways Love still means literally the same thing. Nothing life is worth it if love isn't involved and it will never make any sense because it has no cause.
Life is a journey, in this journey love must be a guide point that helps you push to become better, to become everything you'd ever wish for and above to see the good in Man and the Universe. It's like I said, we feel like we need more love, or we long for it, well yes we definitely do, so never walk this life without this abstraction.
Take a moment and look around you, look at the beauty of the sea, the sky, nature and everything in it. You see, Love doesn't mean it will only be there whenever you are happy, feeling good or enthusiastic. Love says "I'm in everything you go through, I'm in your happiness, sadness, tears, pain, joy, and peace".
To be loved and To love, brings meaning to the life you lead, it defines your perception, distinguishes you from the rest and places you in a vantage position.
To love or to trust Love is never a weakness, hold on to it steadfastly, as it will guide you basically even without changing its nature. It is what makes you smile when you are at the brink of losing it all, its what makes you sad when you miss your loved ones.
Beyond all of this, It is an Unconditional commitment to serve selflessly, to communicate effectively, fearlessly protect, and solely commit to and for another. Now that you've understood this abstraction, now meet Time.
Time: A Construct Of The Human Mind
For some reasons that I may not know of, we often say the phrase "There isn't enough Time", "The time is short". In this world time is simply a construction designed by our minds, to keep us under check.
Since time is a construct of our mind, it means we can reconstruct our very knowledge of time, because if there wasn't 24hrs in a day and maybe January to December, Life won't stop, Love won't die, and we might as well not even grow old mentally.
Time is basically the Indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
For all that's good in this life, all that's bad, everything that walks, breathe, creeps, moves and remains still, is as a result of time. You being here is because time permits it, you reading this is because time made the decision, that you'd read something like this. What's that thing you want to achieve, where's that place you need to go to but you can't because there isn't enough time?
I'll Tell you what, For every minute you waste complaining, for every second you throw away just know that "Time" is gifting you, and you don't need to rush it, you don't need to catch up with it, Time will always wait for anyone who will use it to its full potential.
So quit complaining, start planning, quit running without purpose, find purpose and use time because, in the long run, we'll always need more time.
Since time is an illusion, then we have all the time in the world, Yes everything hits the bottom eventually, time will elude us but somewhere, somehow, someone will turn it back again, the hour glass doesn't stay at the bottom forever.
Death; Is Not The Enemy
Death is Inevitable, its unavoidable and above all, it is part of the human biological arrangement of life and its not the enemy. Despite the fact that we crave for love, and the thought that we need more time, We fear the worst which is "Death".
The truth is death will always be there, we all must leave this place one day to a better place, a place where these abstractions don't matter, a place where Death is not a factor, neither is time because we'd already had all that we require and above all, the love that is timeless.
Despite the fact that death might be a part of life, it doesn't really have to govern or control the way we live, its never really about dying, its more about living and putting life to good use, learning to love, observing the realities that nature and life brings, and above all leading a life of purpose.
So, what if we fear death, but wouldn't we rather fear not living more? Death is never a factor compared to life. Life is a gift no matter what form it takes, you have to be grateful for it, be grateful to the universe, to the Creator, to nature, to all of Creations, because it's a gift.
We need not fear death, for we never really die, we only move on to another realm, where there are less strife, pain and all the challenges in this world. Death is Death, we can't avoid it, we can't run away from it, instead, we hold on to the best of life, the love, the happiness, the sadness, the ugliness, the tears and everything in between.
These things make life worth living, giving us a very good story to lean back on, to tell our children, and them to tell their own children and no doubt everything we do, experience and know all connect us to these abstractions of life, for we may not know what happens next, but we are always hopeful.
We may not know what's next but, we have faith, we might not even know if time will be good to us but we flow with it anyways, and with no doubt, we seize the opportunity to love and be love because the greatest of these three things is Love.
Love is pure, it is true, it is noble, it doesn't discriminate, its never boastful, it's kind, loyal and above all it doesn't talk less. Love binds us together, it gives our hope, faith, sadness, pain, and every other emotion, a direction. And without question it is Selfless and knows no hate or harm, it can be time bound or timeless, regardless of whether or not, Love will always be the most important abstraction in the universe. Thank you.
Love is the path to a good death.
People forgets this and crumble when talking about death.
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When you realize that death is not death and only the beginning of the birth of something new, you don't fear death as much; in the case of symbolic deaths on the path personal growth, death becomes more useful, even powerful, an opportunity for something newer and better to grow in the place of the imperfect part of you which dies, if you can release your attachment to it. The seed seems tiny and insignificant, but the fallen tree gives it enormous potential.
When you view life as a gift and live it to the fullest, you don't fear death because you'll die knowing you actually lived, and didn't waste your potential or your Time, and because when the Time comes, you will finally be able to rest, before it's Time to live again.
When you accept death as your friend who will one day relieve you of the heavy responsibility which gives your life meaning and strengthens your Love, you are able to keep pushing forward no matter what, because the pain won't last forever.
When you live a life motivated by Love and acting out of Love, you don't fear death, because it will pat you on the back, and not damn you to more pain because of the pain you caused.
When you live a life of Love, you do fear death a little, out of respect to it and your strong will to live, because you couldn't bear to leave your responsibilities behind before they are as complete as possible, you couldn't bear to leave your Loved Ones behind.