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You're losing your most valued trait. What would you do?
Posted on May 2nd, 2007
by 
Rob
Rob
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 28, 2007:
Wow. Hell of a question.
Considering I would know it's a brain disease, i would make sure my will and wife were up-to-date on my quality of life issues. If there's an empty house, cut the utilities and let it go.
I have already considered this question in meditation. There's a prayer in our school that to begin making meditation meaningful requires a detachment from this life. What that means in the final frame is that my activities and acoomplishments mean nothing, but it doesn't mean I'm not doing them. They aren't there for my ego is all. And it's not easy!
Like many folk, I like to look like I'm intelligent enough to discuss the issues, and I'm well read, a damn good carpenter, on the leadership track in the fire department, and it's all really just blah blah blah.
What really counts is the legacy I leave behind. if that legacy is that my life was devoted to loving and helping people, than I may have actually grown some as a human. All my accomplishments will become dust. In fact, who will remember me even 25 years after I leave my body?
Now that's the philosophical approach. Just this morning I wrote a letter to my dying mother-in-law. It's a first for me because I sat on oversold jet on the tarmac in St. Louis and missed my dad's passing, and my mom passed while on a vacation I wasn't on. And I cried while i wrote it. because even though I know she is an infinite being, that what I see in her body is not the bright flame of a woman I know she is, I will miss her. I am still to some degree attached, and wiggling out from under an old frame of life/death definitions.
So I would likely at first be a bit dazed, scared, angry, and all that. But I know I would turn and face that path, and the inevitable change that would occur. I guess I can say because it's because I'm Libran, and what good would it do to do otherwise? Yea, I'd fight like hell to slow it, stop it, heal, whatever was available. At the same time, i would try to embrace it.
Considering I would know it's a brain disease, i would make sure my will and wife were up-to-date on my quality of life issues. If there's an empty house, cut the utilities and let it go.
I have already considered this question in meditation. There's a prayer in our school that to begin making meditation meaningful requires a detachment from this life. What that means in the final frame is that my activities and acoomplishments mean nothing, but it doesn't mean I'm not doing them. They aren't there for my ego is all. And it's not easy!
Like many folk, I like to look like I'm intelligent enough to discuss the issues, and I'm well read, a damn good carpenter, on the leadership track in the fire department, and it's all really just blah blah blah.
What really counts is the legacy I leave behind. if that legacy is that my life was devoted to loving and helping people, than I may have actually grown some as a human. All my accomplishments will become dust. In fact, who will remember me even 25 years after I leave my body?
Now that's the philosophical approach. Just this morning I wrote a letter to my dying mother-in-law. It's a first for me because I sat on oversold jet on the tarmac in St. Louis and missed my dad's passing, and my mom passed while on a vacation I wasn't on. And I cried while i wrote it. because even though I know she is an infinite being, that what I see in her body is not the bright flame of a woman I know she is, I will miss her. I am still to some degree attached, and wiggling out from under an old frame of life/death definitions.
So I would likely at first be a bit dazed, scared, angry, and all that. But I know I would turn and face that path, and the inevitable change that would occur. I guess I can say because it's because I'm Libran, and what good would it do to do otherwise? Yea, I'd fight like hell to slow it, stop it, heal, whatever was available. At the same time, i would try to embrace it.
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