Tonight I revisited taking some shots of water dropping into a glass and I think I will attempt it a few times more in the future. It is a low barrier of entry, but it does give an interesting result I can relate to. I like simplicity and, it doesn't get much simpler to than water.
I always have liked the idea of water, even though swimming scares me. I drowned on my eighth birthday and had to be resuscitated - my family never knew, and they were only a few metres away at the time. It was the day I learned to swim but obviously, I needed more practice.
I have almost died a couple times in my life and death doesn't scare me and even as a child, I would think about myself dying if it would save another. I think it was a protection mechanism as I realized young that being near the youngest in the family, it is likely I will see my family pass away before me and, that scared me back then.
It doesn't scare me now as I have come to terms with life being in an unbreakable relationship with death and no matter the care taken, all things come to an end. This has given me more clarity in life and taken much of the power the fear of death can hold. Not having fear doesn't mean one won't protect or be upset under circumstance, just that life delivers what it does and I deal with it as I do.
Life is both serious business as well as a game to be played for enjoyment and this is perhaps why fear is such a limiting factor. When we fear we can neither see the situation well, nor make clean decisions that best utilize personal resources for the situations faced. Fear these days for me (and likely many) is mostly of the psychological kind rather than the physical - we fear losing face, losing investments, losing opportunity, losing our identity.
Identity is a funny one as while I meet many people who believe they are unique, I am yet to meet one who actually lives in that way. All want to belong to some group or another, pair up similarities and repel those who are different in some way.
While we do spend a lot of time arguing about complexities, one thing is simple. We all die. Some see death as depressing but I see it as a driving force. As far as we know, we already know the end of the book, the last page - it is what we do on the pages before that is unknown.
As they say, "it is the journey, not the destination."
Simple.
Taraz
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