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Originally Posted by AnnaBettina
I'm having a real hard time accepting the "possibility" (I say possibility because no one knows for sure), that we all end up as a rotten piece of meat in a coffin. When I reflect on the people I know or have known when blood was coursing through their veins, yes, I have an extremely difficult time knowing the significance of their life only to have it end with grand finality at the coffin (and slowly decaying...just stating the realities of life). Literally pushing up daisies...a return to the biomass.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, yet I also don't think "returning to the biomass" cancels out the value, or "significance," of the life preceding that state.
There was this reporter who spent a year traveling around, interviewing in-depth a lot of ordinary people. He would literally pick a town at random, drive there, go to a phonebook, and randomly select people to call and ask if he could interview them.
The interesting thing was how everyone he talked to had this great story to tell. Certainly none of them discovered the cure for a disease, or became rich and famous, but they all had touched the lives of others in some way, and done things worth talking about and that were interesting to hear about.
I think we are too close to ourselves and can be totally blinded to what is significant about ourselves and our lives, not to mention our potential.
Just my two cents....
--Ceara1010