Life. Bright. Fleeting. Ephemeral as morning dew. Death. Dark. Unknown. Final. Two things. Contradictory. Opposites. Yin and Yang. Yet close, so close! A line, thin and fragile as a spider's thread, ready to snap at the slightest touch, separates light and shadow. You could be in the prime of life, the flower of youth, the epitome of vitality, when, SNAP! You're dead.
We fear death. There is not a truer statement on earth. Death is the grim reaper, the final countdown, the end of blessed life. Death is unknown, and what we do not know, we fear. The fight to understand is what defines us humans. We strive to conquer the forces around us, to understand the universe that surrounds us. We might now know what lies within an atom, but we have yet to find out what happens after a person stops breathing. Will his existence be snuffed out? Will his soul move on, as preached by most religions? Or will he be reincarnated into a new being? We do not know. We can conduct no experiments, run no tests. We have yet to snatch any glimmer of the secrets of death.
Yet, is this fear of death a reason, an excuse for not living life to the fullest?
TO BE CONTINUED.
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Wrote this for aural assessment. Hey, who ever knew I was philosophical?? heee heeeee
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