Crossroads - Extract

As well as this blog I've also started writing a book, containing a lot of things I put on here as well as other bits and pieces. I would like to share with you a couple of extracts of what I've written today.

“You can argue whether our lives are already set out for us or not, but life is still what you make of it; live each day like it’s your last, because there’s every chance that it could be.”

“You cannot change the inevitable. Everything happens for a reason; sometimes these are reasons we cannot understand or explain, but they are reasons none the less.”

Some of us (mostly religious people, however, I do not wish to target or offend you in any way) believe in predestination. This is a belief where God has already planned out everything we’d ever do in our lives; what we eat; whether we smoke; if we marry; if we have children; and when we die.  Some argue that this means we don’t have free will, however, I do not wish to start a debate on what is true or not, for the shear fact that no one knows the answer. Other, say that we have choice; we are responsible for mapping out our own lives, and no one controls or plans what we do expect ourselves.

So many of us fear death; for example, if it comes to crossing a busy road, many of us will run in order to avoid being hit. I was in Southampton with a friend yesterday, and as we were on our way to the car park, we had to cross a number of these busy roads. It got to the point where we were both standing in the middle, watching the oncoming traffic. He said to run across, and did so. I remained standing, waiting, until the first car had passed me by before I continued to walk towards the pavement. I will admit, there wasn’t that much space between the next car and I, but I refused to run. I walked. If was to be hit, so be it. If that was supposed to be my death, then let it happen. I can’t decide how and when I die, neither can I control it. Once I met my friend back on the pavement, he asked me, “Why aren’t you in a hurry to live?” I replied with, “Life is too short; if you hurry to live, it will be over sooner than you think,” So I try to live each day without fearing these things that have to potential to kill. It will happen, and it does happen. Death is inevitable, so don’t waste your life running from it. Obviously, I don’t want you to take this too far and do anything on purpose to try and end your life. All I wish is for you to not worry as much, and to enjoy your life for what it is, because no matter how much we run across roads, and avoid anything dangerous, death will find us. It’s natural, so we shouldn’t be afraid.

Thank you :)