BEFORE MY LAST BREATH
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I have reached the venerable age when the only major event left in my life is my own death. I now find myself seeing everything in a new and totally different perspective. I give all things and all actions the true values of their worth in the context of a human life. As one ages, the world takes on different shades of coloring such as the expectation of the bright future of my youth has now turned greyer and has lost all of its promised glory. What was to be my future is now my past and has won me no accolades. My life was interesting but always lacking in financial security. But now, at the end of the journey I ask myself: “What was it about?” - “ Why did I live more than eight decades for?” Was I a good citizen and did I serve the God of the Earth, MONEY, according to the rules of a modern society? If I did then all that has true value; all things of the soul were neglected and relegated to oblivion. Thankfully I did not fail my true calling. Before I go, I want to serve the real me, the spiritual person. I do not want my life to completely end in the bottom of a freshly dug grave at the local cemetery. It is not why I worked so hard to understand the true purpose and destiny of my own existence. Common sense tells me that there is more to a human life than the earthly journey. It is not possible that the more crooked a person is the more it will enjoy the good things of the material world while the decent and honest peoples remain destitute. In the end there will be an accounting of one’s behavior so that good deeds are rewarded and evil acts are punished. One cannot steal and continually hurt people and not be expected to be judged and sentenced at the time of death. Common sense is a universal capacity to analyze and judge all human acts. We all possess this essential talent and were we to always live by the dictates of common sense we would do no wrong, ever. It requires that we think seriously before posing an act. This is where the difficulty arises; we humans do not like to think because we have chosen to live more like animals than intelligent beings.
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