Death is a part of life that I have begun to pay more attention to and learn from over the last years.

Living Is because Death Is. Nothing comes if nothing goes.

Sometimes what goes is the old version of us. Sometimes what leads up to that is a lot of little “deaths”. They could be how we used to respond to certain things. It could be the many ways we have come to know ourself in order to liberate us from the why’s and how’s we wanted to hide from/attach to things and people. Sometimes what goes is our hiding from the truth (hiding from ourself), and in that process of working through our fears and wounds we realize and become a kind of Living truth. There are sayings about how a tall tree needs low roots. This is my experience too.

“Nothing changes if nothing changes”. Projecting our unresolved personal issues on others is a symptom. Denying it when we do is a disease. If we are mostly on the “other side” of these habits, the next step is to stop trying to change people because we care about them. It will only drag us down and ignite the echoes of those old wounds. Some relationships will die. We have to let them go. Really caring about others looks like not constantly trying to intervene in the lessons they need to learn in the life they are choosing. We all make our choices, thus choose our own outcomes too in a sense. Cause and Effect.

Actual death of people we know happens too. That’s hard.

Death is an experience. It is more than a feeling and sensation. It’s something that we go through while we’re alive and especially realized when we are consciously working towards becoming a taller and stronger tree. If we commit ourselves to becoming a bigger and more enriched tree for more creatures to find shelter in, our roots go deeper, and with it experiences/challenges/opportunities to learn and grow.

Consciously, we experience a full spectrum of thoughts/feelings/emotions at any time. Sometimes, it seems we’re experiencing more of one type than others. When that is more of Death, it can be a bit scary and uncomfortable…especially during our first brushes with it.

When we are with it again, there is a little more understanding and experience that is at least like some kind of peace/acceptance that nothing else can offer and no one can really explain. It has to be understood through walking one’s own path. If you understand what I’m saying it’s not because I’m saying it, it’s because you have been through it yourself.