Life, What Is It But A Dream?

[poliphilo]

My daughter woke up one morning laughing her head off because she'd remembered that life on earth is just one big game of let's pretend.

I've never had a revelation quite like that, but I've had dreams in which I could fly, or in which I returned to the old homestead and knew- just knew- that this was the true reality.

We are spirits- and we pass into incarnation on a regular basis to pursue our education- or maybe just for fun. The self is a suit of clothes.

I was reading an article in a newspaper yesterday which deplored the fact that we go through life hardly ever thinking about death. We? Who exactly is this "we"? I think about death all the time.

Comments

[wolfshift.livejournal.com]

What a strange statement. I think quite a lot of people think about death an awful lot of the time. Large chunks of religion are directly related to death.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Death, I think, is ever present for most people of a certain age. Some just suppress the thoughts better than others.

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

Lately I think about death all of the time, too, and I wish I wouldn't.

I wanted to find Stan Freberg's parody of this...

[jorrocks-j.livejournal.com]

...but I couldn't find it.

The original's still good, though:

[lily.livejournal.com]

I think when we are still young we hide death very deep into the recesses of our mind to be able to enjoy life. Then as we grow older we slowly dig up death's hide away from our mind as we realize that time and aging is not stopping so it's futile to pretend and hide from the fact that sooner or later we will actually meet death.

Lili

[ibid.livejournal.com]

I suspect most people deliberately try and avoid thinking about it, in our post Christian society people are afraid of a void (as i admit I am a little) or they are afraid of some sort of judgement and then eternity.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I believe. If I die and there is nothing there, I won't know it and I won't care because I'll be dead. If, however, there is something, a lot of people are going to be either pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised, aren't they?