Our Life’s Are Ending One Minute At A Time

Our life’s are ending one minute at a time and there is nothing we can do about it. There is no magic pill that we can take to stop time and prevent us from dyeing of old age or to make us immortal and live for ever. Life begins in the womb and ends in the grave for all of us.

I for one know how quickly and unexpectedly life can be taken away from us, even though I was fortunate and survived my very close encounter with the Grim Reaper. During my encounter with death, I felt as if I had died, because when my eyes closed and I went under the water it was truly over for me in my mind. The Day I Nearly Drowned  In Paradise.

The point that I’m going to make today is that the one thing that we do have some choice about is, how we life our life’s. The bottom line is that, “this is our life’s”. We cant live our life’s through or as someone else, even though I suspect many people think they can.

However what we should never except is living our life’s as if we are the living dead. By that I mean, we need to free ourselves from our own chains of slavery, which have been created by our own minds. We control our own futures and are the masters of our own minds. Even though I will admit at times in my life I wasn’t in control of anything.

I hear it all the time people whinging on about hating their jobs, their boss is a bastard, they cant stand the wife, they are fed up being broke, their life’s are going nowhere fast. They then go and spend every spare minute they have watching crap television programmes, speaking shit on Facebook, Twitter and msn, or watching online porn as a substitute, and of course all those cheaters out there!

Life is shit, is because we have made it shit for ourselves. I suppose the easiest thing in the world to do  is find a hundred excuses as to why life is so bad or not going the way we want it too. The most difficult thing to do is look ourselves straight in the face in a mirrior and say, “you know something, I’m to blame for my life being so shit and I’m the only one that can change things”.

When people don’t take any action to improve what’s happening in their own life’s or to find some purpose as to why they are alive, how can things possible improve. The reason why most people just keep on drifting along in an unhappy and unfulfilled life is because it is easier to do so.

I must admit death wasn’t something that I had really contemplated, until I was struggling to keep myself afloat in the Atlantic Ocean in Barbados. My near death experience brought it home to me big time, the realisation that my life will end sooner or later. Whether I die in 2 days, 3 years or 50 years time, it will still come too soon for me.

The fact that our life’s are ending one minute at a time, doesn’t mean that we should fear death creeping up on us. Quite the opposite in fact, we should accept it and understand that it is an inevitable part of life. It is going to happen sooner than we think and we have to make the most of it while we have the chance.

Waking up from the dead on the shores of Silversands Beach in Barbados was the re-birth I needed to get my life back on track. I slowly started to get all the shit out of my life, empty out all the negative thoughts from my mind and start living my life like I was on borrowed time. Life is good, life is sweet and life is for living.

My life, just l like everyone else’s is ending one minute at a time, but what matters is how you live those minutes that you have left. If you have dreams and ambitions, don’t let anyone or anything stop you from giving it your best shot to achieve them. And stop using age, whether your young or old as an excuse for not getting on with things.

I will leave you with one of my favourite quotes from Braveheart, “Every man dies, not every many truly lives”.

 

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