if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.
Interpretation
Life's essence unfolds when we embrace living fully and authentically.
This quote suggests that life is a series of fleeting moments, and while one might perceive their life in retrospect as they near death, the real value lies in fully engaging with life while it is happening. To truly be alive means to actively participate in the experiences and emotions that life offers, rather than simply watching them pass by.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing life experiences.
Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.
There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.
I’ve had enough, this is my prayer, that I’ll die living just as free as my hair.
It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future
Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.
Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
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