Life And Death

Life and Death


I awoke this morning with a lot of thoughts in my mind. Don’t know why I did but I simply had to take the time to sort them out. I started the day off with a prayer and from there I started thinking. What I really was churning my brain over was the fact that people take life for granted. They seem to wake everyday, take a deep breath and their on their merry way. Now I know that there are people in this world that don’t believe in God, well the God I believe in but think about it, whether you believe or not…are you thankful to be alive another day?
I went to a funeral on Sunday and it was one of the Bishops for my church that had passed. While there, I kept thinking about how death could be so final and life is just a moment that we have in time. To think you can spend the majority of you existence with the one you were meant to be with; you wake each morning to find them laying there with their arms holding onto you even in the deepest sleep. You spend the hard and easy, the good, bad and ugly and all the cherished and most loathed memories with them…but then one day…they just disappear from your world. Death is so unexpected…yet it is. It is one thing that you simply can’t evade and that part to me is just horrible. But it must be…
Some of us awake everyday expecting to take life by the horns and handling it the way we want. We try to get the best and all from it…but one day we’re going to meet the end of our beaten path. As much as that sucks, there’s simply no way of escape from it. We sew our existence into the fabrics of time, but one day the masterpiece will meet its end because its done, or our thread will be no more and what we thought was going to be apart of our existence, will cease to be.
I guess I said all of that to say this, don’t waist a moment worrying about the material things of this world. Don’t hold back a smile or ignore a moment to look up at the heavens and say ‘Hey! It’s a beautiful day!” Learn that most things aren’t too important or so bad that it can’t be fixed…and if it comes to a point where something is broken beyond repair…let it go. I for one do not waist time hanging onto the negative….I wish to always remain positive and highly optimistic. I’m not saying fashion your life like me…I’m saying be you and be happy for who and what you are. There’s only one you in this world, so the rest of us here are counting on you to play that role. Thank you for reading and I hope that some how my words have touched you or prick your thoughts.


Death is final…Life is but a moment…I pray that this moment will last forever
-Anansia Leadon