Comments on: Life Is Short

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:45:41 +0000

Thank you for posting this entry. Very true words that hit home…a topic that I’ve been mulling about frequently over the past year. Chris Henry…a life that was cut short…very tragic – it should make us wake up and seize on whatever opportunities we are given in life. Thank goodness someone else I know is advising us to get out of our comfort zone – even if it’s just for a little while. Life is all about growing and if you’re not growing or learning, then you are stagnant and dying, I believe. Life is short. One day you wake up and it’s gone. Learn to conquer the fear that is keeping you back from accomplishing the things in life that you want to do and whatever the outcome, chances are very good that either way you will be glad that you took the risk.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:46:53 +0000

I had my whole perspective shifted by considering this.

I’m dead already. My life is only an unlikely and brief abberation somewhere at the ass end of this huge universe. Even if I don’t die young like Chris Henry, even if I live to a ripe old age…so what? It’s a miserably short flash in the Billions of years this planet has been around.

The only meaning my life has is that which I give it. If I decide to hold back from taking chances and living, am I going to look back and be GLAD I cowered in fear? What good will holding back from life do me on my deathbed?

I realized that since I’m already dead to this universe, these few years of LIFE I have are a FREE GIFT! I shouldn’t even be alive in the first place. I’m playing with house money, what do I have to lose? Nothing at all. From this perspective, holding back and playing it ‘safe’ makes no sense at all. I really have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

We’re all going to die someday and nothing will change that. Once I was able to accept this, a lot of things started to sort themselves out in my head. Fear of talking to women has almost faded for me entirely. A lot of bullshit that used to get to me no longer does.

I would encourage my fellow travellers to try to apply this perspective in their lives. It’s not a one-and-done deal…I still need to remind myself and make adjustments regularly. But once you really drink it all in, once you really begin to accept this as the truth (because it is), it is absolutely liberating.

Like Tony said, Carpe Diem.

By: Tony888

Tony888 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:14:39 +0000

Merry Christmas everyone.

Carpe Diem, now and in the coming new year.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:47:25 +0000

Yea I know what you mean. 3 years ago I was running across the street at night and realized the street was wider than I thought and a car was coming,the car didn’t slow down or stop,So i stopped and when I did, I was so close to this car probably doing about 40mph that I could of reached out and opened the door if it was standing still. It could have been all over right there…wasn’t my time to go I guess.