When I hear of people dying on the news or something of the like....i'm saddened if they are painful deaths. i'm saddened for those who knew them. But I'm envious of those who have passed the process of death and are now dead.

I have no proof of what happens after death...yet I still feel an automatic envy of those who die.

Something that made me feel some genuine peace the other day was the realization that I'm aging. I'm 33, almost 34. And the average life expectancy is about 77 for a male. So while I'm not quite to the half-way point, based on the life expectancy, it is approaching. And I can't help but think: "At least it's almost half over and soon it will be 3/4 over and then it will be over."

Thank God for the inevitable things in life: taxes, rising gas prices, and death.

I can see the end...at least I can't get any younger and have to go through it again. (I don't believe in reincarnation, but that would suck if it were true.)