What is Life About
May 21, 2009 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Affirmations of Life
When faced with death it makes you think long and hard about life. What is life about? This is a question that continuously makes me think long and hard.
The more that I think, the more I believe that life is not about making a living, it is greater than that….it is about creating a lifelong legacy. Of course we need money to feed some basic needs, but we need love more….we need to live more….And when you think about it, we may have lost our love…but that is the person NOT the feeling.
When you meet people who are infectious in their happiness or their contentedness….what is it that they have? They have come to terms with living, they have put living at their core of their existence, they don’t fear life…they fear not living.
Faced with seeing first hand, death….that should be our motivation to embrace life.
I just came back from walking my dog. It is a beautiful spring day here. As I walked I was thinking the very same things that you wrote here, Anna. The feeling of love is still with me. That is what we should be grateful for. I don’t mean in a Pollyanna sort of way. I think that we have to face the fact that we miss our loved one terribly but that we are still here and we have to find our way in life. We can choose to find the good things in life or we can wallow in self pity. For most of us it is a battle every day but it is a battle worth fighting and winning. We all have good things to focus on and that is what we must do. That does not mean that we forget our loved one. On the contrary, by living each day to its fullest we are honouring their memory. It was their love that defined a good part of our lives and that does not need to change. If there is someone out there reading this and who has just recently lost their love, please be comforted in the thought that you will find it within yourself to go on and to find some contentment in the future. It is almost a year for me and I am starting to feel that contentment. Look to the good things because they are there.
Also, Anna, looking forward to the next chat in June.
Leslie – I agree with your words so much. I honestly believe I am who I am because of our love and if I let that person whither and die then I will kill that love….I will lose my connection with him. As hard as it is I MUST fight to keep that person, to keep her bright and alive so that somehow our love lives on….
Leslie your words of wisdom always mean the world to me xx