Die but before that, live.

Sometimes we feel so much pain that we want to kill ourselves.

PLEASE DON"T.

We are going to die sooner or later anyway. That's definite. We have no idea when that will be. So, let that go. Death is well and truly taken care of.

So before death comes knocking, before it comes to sweep away everything we have known and to take away our whole experience of this life, we might as well live it.

LET"S LIVE OUR LIVES.

We live the shit parts and we experience the suffering because it won't go away. We decide to face it and feel it in all it's horror. This is the life we were born to live. Intense suffering is a part of human existence.

Once we have faced that, we are free to live all the other parts. Let's get out there with this awareness of our own mortality and the truth of suffering and be in this world at this moment. Let's follow our deepest wishes and inclinations and step into the whole messy, crazy, complicated, confusing, fucked up and wonderful, (because sometimes life is wonderful - appearing a moment which fills us with wonder, like love) thing called human life.

Let's stop worrying about the details, like what people will think, whether we'll go broke, if we've sent the kids to the right schools or chosen the right career for ourselves, if we'll get fat or if we'll make a mistake.

Let's take back our freedom. This is our crazy, fucked up life and we can live it the way we want.

No one can force us to take on excessive mortgages, stay in jobs that we hate, work out when we don't feel like it, buy clothes or other stuff that we don't really need, watch shit television or stand by while people treat others or this earth without respect or kindness.

Do what you want.

Buy a bus or plane ticket and get the hell out of here, get rich, go broke, become deeply religious or irreligious, let your cellulite or your gut hang out, wear whatever you want, speak up about what matters to you, buy heaps of stuff or buy hardly anything, eat well or eat junk, become super fit or admit that you're just not that into exercise, write, paint, play an instrument. Do it all badly or be some bloody supremo. It doesn't matter.  

The truth is that we are all going to die. So go ahead and do that.

Die but before that, live.


  

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  1. Fucking brilliant article Kerry, absolutely love it! Go sista xxx

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  2. Fucking brilliant article Kerry, absolutely love it! Go sista xxx

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  3. Wow, Kerry, that's why we give a shit and dance our bums off on a lovely Sunday night. I am very thankful that the suffering I had to go through in my life was rather mild. I live and love and mostly don't care what others think and when I do get down I have a fantastic network of sisters like you to help pick me up and make me smile again. Love you xx

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    1. Thanks for reading, Birgit and commenting. Thanks for being a free spirit, a great dancer and an inspiring friend. K.x

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