Life and Death

Life happens simply - Death does too.

I have had life inside me twice, and while the process is not really all that simple, life itself happens simply - it just IS. 

One moment there is no existence of a thing - and in the next moment, something that never existed before is alive and is there.

I still marvel at Bubbie and Lil'bit - they never existed before...they weren't a thought, or a hope, or even pre-sketched design.  In moments of love, they were created and just were, and are to this day.

I have also lost love ones in my life.  Both of my grandmother's and just recently my father in law.  And I realized that just as life simply is there.....death is life simply, not there.

In one moment a person existed, was, lived, breathed, laughed, and loved....and in the next moment, is not anymore.  The road to death may not be pretty, or easy, or wanted, but that is a road we will all go down at some point.  Yes, you memory will be there in the thoughts and hearts of those you leave behind, so your name and story will continue, but you...the person and body will not be there to create new ones. 

I am not sure where this post is going really, only to say that.....life and death are that simple....at one point you never existed, and at one point, you won't exist again. 

Maybe the secret of life is that between those two very simple moments you make every moment count.   Life isn't really all that short, but its short enough that wasted time is a travesty that happens all the time.