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Your Stories Shouldn’t Die With You
Share your nuggets of wisdom before you go.
Life lasts a blink of an eye. We are what happens in the meantime. A glance.
We are subject and predicate. The noun with which we are named + the verb with which our actions are designated.
- [Insert your name], runs, jumps, works, lives, dies.
That’s who we are: what happens between blinks of an eye. Everything else is not our business. It is of a future state of being that does not yet exist (but will come).
According to the principle of conservation of mass or Lavoisier’s law,
“The matter is neither created nor destroyed: it is only transformed.”
In other words: In a chemical reaction, the atoms do not disappear. They are simply ordered in another way.
And we will order ourselves in another way when we die. We will inhabit another plane, in another order of existence.
But until that change of state arrives, our job is to live.
I firmly believe that we are the fingers with which the universe pinches its cheeks to check whether it is awake or asleep. And therefore, our function and responsibility are to leave a record of what we have…
