Enchanted music video
Now...back to what I originally wanted to post about.
My Birthday is in less than 2 days, I'll actually be 15 in less than 28 hours. I dont want to get older! I mean of course I do, but I feel like once I reach a certain age I wont be able to act like a kid anymore or do kid stuff. Of course I'll be able to but Im almost 15....and when Im 20 its gonna seem like only maybe a year went by.
People take what they have now for granted too much. They dont appreciate the time they have, the people they know, and the events that one day will be memories. Its is so much harder to remember the past than appreciate the present...Some even become to wrapped up in what they want for the future they forget the past and ignore the present, losing those they care about.
Im just not ready to give up being 14. You know whats funny? You know how every year your parents ask, "So do you feel older?" You always answer no, but last year I did feel older, not much but I did. Now I feel alot older before my birthday... next thing I know I'll be graduating high school, going to college, getting married....life goes by way too fast.
Its kinda sad how, even though there isnt alot of time to live people do stupid things like: kill people, smoke, do drugs, speed, and constantly put themselves in dangerous situations. Most of these cause those people to spend alot of time in jail, or getting killed way before the should have...
~Molly
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This reminded me of something I thought and wrote about over the Summer.
What is death?
Death is defined as the loss of life.
Life has nothing to do with the act of breathing. You don’t die when you stop. True death and nonexistence occurs when you are forgotten. Once a person dies, the people who knew them continue to remember them. Once those people are dead, once everyone who the person knew is gone, what becomes of them? They cease to have ever existed. There are records of them, but that’s not them. That’s not the person themselves.
Famous people in history are remembered. However, even then, it’s not true remembrance. The person is not remembered; whatever achievement or action that they did is.
Look into your own family tree. As close as 5 generations from you, do you even know the person’s name, let alone anything about them? As far as you know, though that person’s blood pulses through your veins, they never existed. They never were. They’re nothing.
Once you stop breathing, and everyone you know forgets you, that’s when you truly die.
On a subconscious level, people recognize that once they die, once they’re forgotten, they will become nothing. Almost as if they never were.
People fear this nothingness. They fear it, and they want to get away, to find a loophole.
There are many forms of this. I shall discuss which I have seen.
Some people, they strive to be something, to be anything; anything but nothing. These people strive to do something great, so that they will be remembered throughout history, although as has been stated, that remembrance is not true.
They know that they must do this; that they must strive; that it’s expected of them to. And where does this come from? Their parents.
When you’re a child, you have no sense of self control. All you know is what you want. When a child wants to do something, they do it. It’s a simple thing, but beautiful. They do things for themselves and themselves only. However, as they grow older, they are taught what morals they should hold, they are taught that certain things are unacceptable, they are taught what they are to do to help and please others. The reason being, their parents are caught up in the nothingness. They know that it’s too late for themselves, that they have succumbed to it, and they seek to live their lives through their children. To save them from what has become their own fate. What they don’t realize is that by doing this, they’re sealing their child’s fate as well. Instead of doing things for themselves, they do things for others; they work so hard to surpass each other, to make sure that they have a spot in the history of the world, so that they won’t be forgotten, they won’t be nothing. The parents have put all of their fears which destroyed them into their children. Once their children realize that they share the same fate, they do exactly what has been done to them: they corrupt their own children, believing that they are giving them a chance to live. These people get so caught up in trying to live forever, they forget to live for now, and time slowly passes them by, and they grow older, and they die, and they, too, are forgotten.
Other people recognize that they will be forgotten, and it terrifies them. They don’t know what to do, where to turn. Where they turn to, though, is into the nothingness itself. They lose their own identities, they forget who they are. By doing this, they’re the ones responsible for their own deaths. They struggle to be someone worth remembering, they struggle to forget their fears, and in this struggle, they become an entirely new person. This is seen everyday in society. No one wants anything more than to fit in, to conform to the norms. If they, or anyone else, see something in this person that is not considered correct, they change it. This also ties in with the aforementioned parental teachings scenario. Children initially have no sense of fitting in. They do what they want, and that’s all. It is other people who influence them, who change them, who tell them that they’re wrong. They struggle to fix this, and in doing so, they are no longer themselves. While trying to be a person worth remembering, they forget themselves entirely. They never truly existed. This new person that is formed may appear on the outside to be perfect, but it’s just a façade. It’s not the true them, and once this happens, it can never go back to being the true them. They have run from the nothingness, and in doing so, they have fallen directly into it.
Then, there are the people who refuse to recognize the nothingness. They try to suppress their fears, to forget them. To do this, they create distractions. They watch TV, they play computer games, they get high. While trying so desperately to be rid from the nothingness, they are plunging into it as well. The nothingness devours all, and by distracting themselves from it, not anything is changed about that. The only thing that is created is a false life. Haven’t you ever wondered why in today’s world, people are beginning to resemble zombies? They walk around with no respect for anything that isn’t normal to their feeble lives. They don’t take a moment to look at the world around them. They don’t see the beauty in the world. I recently went to visit a huge garden, and it was so very beautiful, and even more so, so very sad. The people there were living zombies. They walked around, and they saw everything, yet they didn’t truly see anything. The beauty was something different, something that they weren’t used to, and something that they would remember, and that terrified them. All they truly cared about was when they could get back inside, to their air conditioned home and their life of lies. As long as they have something to distract them, something that won’t make this life they live worthwhile, they can forget that one day they will cease to exist, they will forget that one day they will be no more.
Humans have a superiority complex. When we look to the world, we see ourselves as being at the very top of the chain of evolution. We believe that we have the blessing of thought, of reason. We can see our lives, and we can strive to learn, and to discover. However, is it really such a good thing? The main motivation behind human progression was founded on the goal of being remembered throughout time. That’s why we’ve progressed, due to our fears. Those things we look down upon, the animals, those things that we feel we are somehow better than. Are we truly? A bird doesn’t question its life. A bird doesn’t strive to change itself to fit in. No, a bird knows exactly what it is to do. A bird doesn’t fear the nothingness. What if the bird recognizes that there is no true way to get away from it? That it is pointless and useless to think otherwise? Perhaps that’s why people evolved in the first place, and are continuing to. We strive to find a solution to our fears, a solution which doesn’t exist.
This brings me to the last form of people that I have seen; the embracers. This is far too small a number. They see the nothingness that they are to become, but they don’t fear it. They see the nothingness that they are to become, but they don’t push it away. They see the nothingness that they are going to become, and they embrace it. In a couple of years, they will cease to exist. That knowledge allows them to live their own life. They don’t live to please others, they are nothing that they’re not. They simply are. In embracing this nothingness, these are the people that become something. They won’t be remembered, their fate is the same as everyone else’s, but they actually live. There is no way to get out of the nothing, but if you embrace it, perhaps that’s not such a bad thing.
Just remember.
Nothing can happen to nothing.
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