Death twitches my ear. "Live", he says. "I am coming."
-Virgil
We will never truly understand life and the things we live through, and at the end of the day we always feel like we don't have enough time. Our days are numbered, and we know that, but we are oftentimes too occupied and too concerned with life's many stressful and monotonous trials that we tend to overlook the things that actually matter. Appreciate life. Sure it has got a lot of lows, but perhaps without these lows, the highs could never really be reached. As the great Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius once said, "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
With that said, everything ends, but the end need not be so bad. There is as much beauty in death as there is in life, we just have to learn to see it. Death is a transition into a new phase of being. Like a dying bird waiting to stiffen and decay on the ground, death is as much a beginning as it is an end, as well as a release into the unknown beyond.
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