One split second

by Mike

34,273 in Burma; Over 12,000 in South-Western China. So many lives lost in such a short space of time as the outside world looks at this situation and simply asks “how and why?”

It’s frightening to think of life as something that can just be taken away in a split second by whatever will you wish to believe in. We are told sometimes the answer is now in relation to all of our prayers and we will never really know how true that statement is.

I’m sure there have been millions upon millions of added prayers as the seconds will have seemed like weeks and months for those who have been affected by these two tragedies. I’m not even sure if there is a better way to describe them.

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

Ernest Becker

I’ve wondered about death, if it is something that we have to expect will happen to us in our last moment? Is there anything you could do to prevent it or is “cheating” it, as such, what was meant to happen to warn you of what is inevitably is to come?

To be honest it is something that I can talk about and state that I am the very person who would consider themselves to not be afraid to die, however I would be afraid to leap and take a chance on certain things. Maybe that makes me hypocritical and I probably am, but overall I don’t understand how something so random can bring about so many different emotions in so many. More so then love I think, as love is not said to be final, it is meant to last forever, however there is a finality about death.

My thoughts go out to those in Burma and China who have suffered loss.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 and is filed under Thoughts & Questions, Views on News.