The picture to your right is a scan of an actual piece of wood hanging here in my house. Apparently, years ago my grandmother found it in a Reader's Digest and liked it SO much that she cut it out, stained it, burnt the edges, and glued it to the wood. Crafty, eh! I grew up walking past it, and never really paid it much attention. Just another decoration on the wall.
I hung it up just this summer, and now I walk past it everyday again. Just when I begin to take life for granted, things have a way of reminding me of how finite this situation we are in is.
People freak out when I say I don't want to have children. Why? Why does it make you uncomfortable that I have come to terms with this? Life is painful, for the most part, and I choose to lessen the pain for myself, as well as not bring someone else into this. Another major reason why is because by the time humans reach their early teens they start snubbing their parents and before you know it they have no idea what their kid (shhh.. shhh. it's my mom calling..) is really doing and are basically just financial backers until the kid gets his/her shit together (which ranges from age 18 to never). I personally don't think I could handle giving my life to something only to have it leave in the end. Anyone out there shaking their head give me a fucking break, ok? When was the last time you spent quality time with your mom/dad/other besides Thanksgiving? Fuck off. I'm right.
I read in a book that human souls are all connected, like one big tree. Some souls are closer to you, like on the same branch. Some are closer still, like on the same twig on that branch. The book is by Brian Weiss, M.D., of Many Lives, Many Masters fame. This book is called Only Love is Real. If you read either, your perspective on life will change, or at the very least these books will inspire some serious thought about what life is about, in a totally un-religious, refreshing way.
I personally think, without giving away the books, that the point of life is to find our soul-mates (branch-mates, if you will) [not just lovers, but certain friends & family members, people you feel unusually connected to] and commit as many good times as we can to our memories.
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