Death

 I once thought of death as a being. A person, sort of. I mean, why wouldn't I portray it as a being, seeing as though I am a part of the generation that has witnessed and experienced some of the largest media format explosions in all of human history. Death, in most of these formats, is always portrayed as a being in one way or another. 

But as I've gotten older, I wonder. I wonder if it is more complex than it is one being. When most people look at the world, they see cause and effect in its most simplistic forms! Cause: Hitler started the Third Reich. Effect: World War 2 happened. But the world, and universe I would say, are much more complex than that. World War 2 was a phenomenon that would have never occurred if it weren't ripe to occur. So many series of conditions had to be in place for Hitler to come into power in the first place. 

Death, in my mind, is the same thing. It is not A being that is there to take one into the afterlife. It is a culmination of all the factors in one's life to happen precisely when it happens. From infant mortality to someone passing away at the ripe old age of ninety-seven it always happens when it happens. Nothing more, nothing less. 

Not that people don't have their own personal experience as they are going through the dying process. There are many stories of individuals seeing loved ones as they near departure. Some people see loved ones that have since passed away. Some people see what they call angels. There are so many rich and beautiful stories about the experiences people go through. But those, in my mind, are still part of the manifestation of the dying process and how complex it is in its many forms. 

To those that may or may not read this: Please don't think I am trying to minimize death. The opposite, actually. I think it's easy to think of Death as having the form of a being because many of us minimize life. We'll say we don't. But we do. So, when it gets time to die, we hold on to those same forms we held on to when alive instead of fully immersing ourselves in the micro-universe as well as the macro-universe. 

Just more Random Thoughts by yours truly...