Comments on: Getting Perspective http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/03/23/getting-perspective/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:32:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Scott Young http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/03/23/getting-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Scott Young Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:46:22 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/03/23/getting-perspective/#comment-53 Everyone enters and leaves in our life. People will come and go. From your standpoint wouldn't the gradeschool friend you lost touch with might as well have passed away? If you don't see the person anymore then it would feel the same from your perspective. Perhaps it is just the finality of it all, the fact that it is now impossible to reform a relationship. I personally feel there is a sort of arrogance that comes with death. We feel as if we are inadvertantly reminded that we are all going to die, ourselves. It reminds us that our own existance will end. My favorite quote about death: "Life is beautiful, death is peaceful. It is the transition that is difficult." Death is what makes life worth living. The knowledge that you are eventually going to die. The idea that you have a limited amount time on this planet makes everything seem a lot more precious. Some people ask what is the meaning of life if we are just going to die. I counter to ask what would be the meaning of life if we lived forever? Everyone enters and leaves in our life. People will come and go. From your standpoint wouldn’t the gradeschool friend you lost touch with might as well have passed away? If you don’t see the person anymore then it would feel the same from your perspective. Perhaps it is just the finality of it all, the fact that it is now impossible to reform a relationship.

I personally feel there is a sort of arrogance that comes with death. We feel as if we are inadvertantly reminded that we are all going to die, ourselves. It reminds us that our own existance will end.

My favorite quote about death:

“Life is beautiful, death is peaceful. It is the transition that is difficult.”

Death is what makes life worth living. The knowledge that you are eventually going to die. The idea that you have a limited amount time on this planet makes everything seem a lot more precious. Some people ask what is the meaning of life if we are just going to die. I counter to ask what would be the meaning of life if we lived forever?

]]> By: Laura Young http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/03/23/getting-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Laura Young Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:43:48 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/03/23/getting-perspective/#comment-49 I read Steve's article also. The only thing that bothers me is that it sounds so flip. Yes, every living being dies but I do think that grief is something to be honored. I think there is a middle ground between catastrophizing and looking at oneself as a miniscule speck in an overwhelmingly huge universe across all eternity. There was a great quote in Das Energi, Let us remember our lives are but moments in the flow of eternity... and let us also remember that eternity is but a flow of lives like ours. I read Steve’s article also. The only thing that bothers me is that it sounds so flip. Yes, every living being dies but I do think that grief is something to be honored.
I think there is a middle ground between catastrophizing and looking at oneself as a miniscule speck in an overwhelmingly huge universe across all eternity.
There was a great quote in Das Energi,
Let us remember our lives are but moments in the flow of eternity…
and let us also remember that eternity is but a flow of lives like ours.

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