This is one of the great reads about death, life - which one feels are two sides of the same coin. I really enjoyed reading it and reading it again. There were so much in it, hard to take it all in at once, but through great writing skill, Eric expressed everything so beautifully and powerfully and also simply - thus making it easy for one to digest it. The descriptions, ideas, thoughts, experiences, imagination, wisdom... all present, flowing together throughout the writing - helping one to get new insights, to question one's own way of seeing death which in turn reflects, bring up living as well, the issue and challenges of life. Reading this, one feels like being walked into something special and that which reminds one of something that awaits one, in close or distance but surely there which in turn encourages one to really live.
One also feels that, dying is a wonderful phenomenon, something that clears everything, giving way to a new to emerge, but the fear keeps one somewhere that would make one afraid of one's life coming to an end, with that all one has possessed, achieved, accumulated over one's course of life. Maybe it's the ending of it all (one feeling that what would happen to this all I worked for, made sacrifices, struggles to gain..) that would make one feel like not letting go or accepting that that is what would happen at the end. The very realization may trigger a transformation, a radical change (if there is one) thus resulting in change of one's life, one's outlook of it, and how one would live the life beautifully, intelligently amidst its simplicity, challenges.
Thank you Eric for reflecting on this topic, issue and in such great length.
On Apr 4, 2022 Ahmad wrote:
This is one of the great reads about death, life - which one feels are two sides of the same coin. I really enjoyed reading it and reading it again. There were so much in it, hard to take it all in at once, but through great writing skill, Eric expressed everything so beautifully and powerfully and also simply - thus making it easy for one to digest it. The descriptions, ideas, thoughts, experiences, imagination, wisdom... all present, flowing together throughout the writing - helping one to get new insights, to question one's own way of seeing death which in turn reflects, bring up living as well, the issue and challenges of life.
Reading this, one feels like being walked into something special and that which reminds one of something that awaits one, in close or distance but surely there which in turn encourages one to really live.
One also feels that, dying is a wonderful phenomenon, something that clears everything, giving way to a new to emerge, but the fear keeps one somewhere that would make one afraid of one's life coming to an end, with that all one has possessed, achieved, accumulated over one's course of life. Maybe it's the ending of it all (one feeling that what would happen to this all I worked for, made sacrifices, struggles to gain..) that would make one feel like not letting go or accepting that that is what would happen at the end. The very realization may trigger a transformation, a radical change (if there is one) thus resulting in change of one's life, one's outlook of it, and how one would live the life beautifully, intelligently amidst its simplicity, challenges.
Thank you Eric for reflecting on this topic, issue and in such great length.