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If you were on your death bed right now; what is the one thing you would say you have learnt?
zenmyste
Veteran
If there is one thing that i have learnt it would be;
You cannot change others , you can only change yourself
You cannot change others , you can only change yourself
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I was terrified of everything as a child lol.
Seriously, won't have learned a thing. Was I supposed to?
Now if you ask what I will have experienced, I'll die still listing it all.
Love more.
:banghead:
I've burnt mine countless times...surprising I got any left
About six months ago, I'd woken up one morning, just like any morning, but when I tried to get out of bed, I couldn't do it. Couldn't sit up, couldn't stand - or walk - without literally falling over onto the floor.... I was sure I had had a stroke while I was sleeping. My husband was panicked. I was panicked.
My head was spinning, the room was spinning, the whole world was spinning! Then the nausea and vomiting started.
As I was being wheeled into the ER from the ambulance, (and there was a break in the vomiting) I had this overwhelming urge to just close my eyes and.... die. I knew it was over. This was it.
I kept thinking " Wow- 56 and dead. Didn't make 95 like I'd planned, dammit!". But it was OK, no fear, really -- so 'easy' to just do it- close my eyes and die.
Yet, there was another part of me that kept telling myself: "Don't you dare close your eyes... you WILL die! And you can't die yet- too many people to take care of. It will kill your mother and father! Keep your eyes open!"
And I forced my eyes open even though everything was spinning violently and the nausea returned.
I could have died... I felt at peace with MY part of the dying bit; but I couldn't do it to my parents. I couldn't do it to my husband. People depend on me and I have much much more to do to take care of the people who depend on me....
I didn't die that day. ;-) And it turned out I probably wouldn't have died if I had closed my eyes.
I had a very severe, acute case of vertigo. Scary as shit. Took me 3 full days to recover from it completely.... But I learned one thing that day- my job here isn't over yet, and I'm not ready to die NOW. I am here to care for others.
But 20, 30 or 40 yrs from now, I will be. And then I'll just close my eyes and go; no fear.
I suggest you break your toe, to help......
One of the person more immature in this topic that I meet was older than me, he always said to me and others that he will never die. And he pass his live really believing that. Because that he live always like a teenager and die prematurely because that. That man was my father, was a good father thought and I loved him.
One is not an elder by virtue of having white hair. One is just advanced in years, and called "grown old in vain". He in whom there is truthfulness, non violence, restraint and self control, however - that wise and faultless sage is to be called an elder.
Dhammapada 260-261
Of course there are young people who are wise and old people who are foolish, but until you have literally faced death, I don't think you know how you will react.