Live Now, Die Later

I have always believed that the most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you died. It must be because we were taught in school to memorize those dates off of a history book about our national heroes, a science book about scientists, and even off of a religious book about saints. We probably have listed too many of those dates in exams but frankly, to tell you, we can only remember the birthdates and death anniversaries that are marked in our calendars as holidays.

Conversely to my belief, Mark Twain once said this, "The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why". Now that makes way more sense. Ask us how they became national heroes? We can answer you right away. Ask us what made them become great scientists? We can list all their discoveries and inventions. And ask us how they became saints? We can tell you their whole life story.

I have realized that death is not as important as we perceive it to be. Actually, it is not important at all! And yet, we are so afraid of dying. We dread the day when it comes and as to how. But I think, that shouldn't be the case. We should be more afraid of not knowing our life's mission, and worse, not being able to fulfill it. It's not about the destination but it's about the journey of getting there. Wouldn't you look forward to your own death knowing that you have fulfilled your purpose on this planet and that you are fully contented of how you chose to live it? After all, our time here on Earth does not define us but rather how we choose to spend it.