Have you ever had one of those moments, when you begin to wonder if you die at that point in time, who would miss you? Who would be at your funeral and would they mean it when they cried?
I find them to be interesting questions, which may say something about me. But the thought that there will be people who cry over people's death that never told that person they loved them. And maybe they really didn't, if they couldn't say it out loud to that person.
And after reading an amazing, life-changing book this quote has stuck with me, "I have decided that funerals are for the living." And to be honest, this is what I tend to think. Because after I'm dead I don't really think I'm gonna care if someone comes to look at my body lying in a box. I'd rather have had them see me when I was alive. Funerals are a way to get closure, they're a way for that persons family to know that even if they have died, they will never be forgotten because they have that marker in the ground.
I have this new found love of spoken word poetry and the topics that these artists (because that's what they are) handle and the way they handle them is beautiful and artistic and so much more eloquent than I could ever be. They can express themselves in such an open way and they don't care what other people think. The confidence they go through life with may not transcend into death, but the fact that they can stand up and fight for what they believe and do it in such and eloquent and non-violent way, is amazing and aw-inspiring to me.
And some days there are those moments where you can look at the world through the eyes of a child and see all the wonderful, beautiful things and you wonder why you don't notice them more often. But going through life with child-like wonder is so much better and a lot harder than going through life as a cynic. So, some days I like to take a couple deep breaths, close my eyes, and when I open them again I tell myself that I will no longer let the world have a say in what I do and say and think. I make a point to have that child-like wonder, because when you have that wonder you begin to learn things about the world, yourself, and the people around you that you never would've known otherwise. So, don't let anyone or anything take away that wonder and that love of life that you have inside of you, because there's probably a kid looking up to you and you should probably find a kid to look up. I know there are a couple who are a lot smarter and know a lot more about life than me, and I look up to them.
Love,
Natalie
I find them to be interesting questions, which may say something about me. But the thought that there will be people who cry over people's death that never told that person they loved them. And maybe they really didn't, if they couldn't say it out loud to that person.
And after reading an amazing, life-changing book this quote has stuck with me, "I have decided that funerals are for the living." And to be honest, this is what I tend to think. Because after I'm dead I don't really think I'm gonna care if someone comes to look at my body lying in a box. I'd rather have had them see me when I was alive. Funerals are a way to get closure, they're a way for that persons family to know that even if they have died, they will never be forgotten because they have that marker in the ground.
I have this new found love of spoken word poetry and the topics that these artists (because that's what they are) handle and the way they handle them is beautiful and artistic and so much more eloquent than I could ever be. They can express themselves in such an open way and they don't care what other people think. The confidence they go through life with may not transcend into death, but the fact that they can stand up and fight for what they believe and do it in such and eloquent and non-violent way, is amazing and aw-inspiring to me.
And some days there are those moments where you can look at the world through the eyes of a child and see all the wonderful, beautiful things and you wonder why you don't notice them more often. But going through life with child-like wonder is so much better and a lot harder than going through life as a cynic. So, some days I like to take a couple deep breaths, close my eyes, and when I open them again I tell myself that I will no longer let the world have a say in what I do and say and think. I make a point to have that child-like wonder, because when you have that wonder you begin to learn things about the world, yourself, and the people around you that you never would've known otherwise. So, don't let anyone or anything take away that wonder and that love of life that you have inside of you, because there's probably a kid looking up to you and you should probably find a kid to look up. I know there are a couple who are a lot smarter and know a lot more about life than me, and I look up to them.
Love,
Natalie
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