Everybody dies twice...

[Srbo]

Every human being dies at least twice.
And everybody knows how and why they died the first time, it doesn`t have to be the same reason for everybody.
After that first death, you can try to fool yourself, to pretend like nothing has happened, but still, somehow you know you are dead.
You can, lets say, move to another country, change your hairstyle, lose some weight, maybe even change your name. Maybe you can try to find interest in something new, so you can hide behind that, but you know that the lethal wound is there, that you are dead.
Maybe you can even find a new love, but only if that person has already died as well. So you don`t have to explain anything, so you understand each other without words and you can avoid each others lethal wounds.
The ones you died from.
The only hope left is, that when you die that second, final time, it won`t hurt as much as it did the first time.

Did you ever die yet?

[blunthead]

Are you sure people die only twice?

[Autumn Gust]

Little parts of me have died over the years. Grief, cynicism, and betrayal are just a few of the forces that have wreaked havoc on my life at one time or another. The losses have been balanced out, though, by other experiences I've had along the way-- witnessing many acts of kindness, discovering inner strength I didn't know I possessed, finding peace in the majesty of nature, and a lot more I could list...

[GNTLGNT]

Did you ever die yet?

...only when I've performed in live theatre...

[Neesy]

...only when I've performed in live theatre...

Bah dump boomp... where's that long handled cane? :wink2:

[Srbo]

Are you sure people die only twice?

Well, I said at least twice in the very first sentence.

[not_nadine]

AWAGS

(except for the last part, as of yet. :smile2:)

[MadamMack]

Little parts of me have died over the years. Grief, cynicism, and betrayal are just a few of the forces that have wreaked havoc on my life at one time or another. The losses have been balanced out, though, by other experiences I've had along the way-- witnessing many acts of kindness, discovering inner strength I didn't know I possessed, finding peace in the majesty of nature, and a lot more I could list...

Absolutely beautiful and the best way to deal with life.

[Damaris]

"My life closed twice before its close—
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me

So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell."

- Emily Dickinson

[Srbo]

Little parts of me have died over the years. Grief, cynicism, and betrayal are just a few of the forces that have wreaked havoc on my life at one time or another. The losses have been balanced out, though, by other experiences I've had along the way-- witnessing many acts of kindness, discovering inner strength I didn't know I possessed, finding peace in the majesty of nature, and a lot more I could list...

Very nice post, that`s what I was thinking of. Thank you.

[blunthead]

Well, I said at least twice in the very first sentence.Aye, sorry Srbo, and thankee for this thread because I so identify with the idea. To make long stories short, I have come to believe that death is the most comprehensive definition of the word "change", and that change is that of "death". For example, if a person who experiences the death of a personal relationship experiences it to its completion, that person changes in the process, and, I like to think in my case, into a better person. This describes the relationship between life and death to me; that only life has the power to take over after death. Not death, which does its job, but life brings forth life.

When we prune a rose part of it dies but only that which must for the sake of the plant. What the rose was is gone, because it is now a different plant. It looks different, sickly, pitiful. Meanwhile, life is figuring out how to take advantage of death, to make the plant's next version look better than its previous. It will look better. Otherwise death would not be necessary in the first place.

[GNTLGNT]

Bah dump boomp... where's that long handled cane? :wink2:

...oh yeah, the crowd was roaring-but not with adoration...

[Hteraj Siredog]

Mindblowing is all i have to say

[fushingfeef]

Aye, sorry Srbo, and thankee for this thread because I so identify with the idea. To make long stories short, I have come to believe that death is the most comprehensive definition of the word "change", and that change is that of "death". For example, if a person who experiences the death of a personal relationship experiences it to its completion, that person changes in the process, and, I like to think in my case, into a better person. This describes the relationship between life and death to me; that only life has the power to take over after death. Not death, which does its job, but life brings forth life.

When we prune a rose part of it dies but only that which must for the sake of the plant. What the rose was is gone, because it is now a different plant. It looks different, sickly, pitiful. Meanwhile, life is figuring out how to take advantage of death, to make the plant's next version look better than its previous. It will look better. Otherwise death would not be necessary in the first place.

You speak true, Frank. Well said.

Sometimes I think parts of me needed to die so I could become the person I am today. Oftentimes it hurts, and often we are left with a resonating sadness, but often there is an upside as well, and we change for the better.

[blunthead]

You speak true, Frank. Well said.

Sometimes I think parts of me needed to die so I could become the person I am today. Oftentimes it hurts, and often we are left with a resonating sadness, but often there is an upside as well, and we change for the better.Yer welcome, feef. Sometimes loss is incalculable. If we gain from it in this life we still never see it. This doesn't mean life is unable to show us something later.

[CCRider529]

In Dean Koontz's book named 'Odd Apocalypse' that was one subject covered in the book. Did you just finish reading that or something?

[heismyking]

Yes we die more than once. Yet somehow we keep being reborn maybe to correct a mistake that we keep insisting upon making. Hopefully we finally figure out what it is that we must do so we can finally achieve the peace that we deserve.

[AnnaMarie]

Did you ever die yet?

i feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone. Or maybe it's just my usual sense of confusion.

when I died I was in the hospital and my heart stopped. But sometimes they come back.....and I did. So, I took your thread title a bit to literally.

....carry on.....

[Srbo]

In Dean Koontz's book named 'Odd Apocalypse' that was one subject covered in the book. Did you just finish reading that or something?

No.
I read only one book in my life by him - Velocity.
Not a fan.